Re: [ilugd] Virtual users mapped to system users

2011-05-23 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Saturday 21 May 2011, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: > Yeah, I was also looking around for a command-line tool that will > allow me to test authentication against PAM. Neither of the two > tools I could find on the 'net (pamck and pamauth) seem to be easily > available, keeping on looking. For

Re: [ilugd] Virtual users mapped to system users

2011-05-21 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Saturday 21 May 2011, Varad Gupta wrote: > > I'm trying to set up an IMAP server for virtual users with the > > following characteristics: > > - Server is handling multiple mail domains, say "foo.com" and > > "bar.com". > > > > - Mail for x...@foo.com gets delivered to system user x.foo.com; ma

Re: [ilugd] Virtual users mapped to system users

2011-05-21 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Sunday 22 May 2011, Abhishek Kumar wrote: > why do you want to use /etc/password. use some enterprise directory > to authenticate against. > > For an enterprise if it is large (or grows to lare enterprise ) > having /etc/password replicated everywhere and in sync would be > calling for trouble.

Re: [ilugd] Virtual users mapped to system users

2011-05-21 Thread Abhishek Kumar
any authentication server(preferably kerberos or SAML based ) to authenticate. this would also help in lot of povisoning scenarions. cheers, abhishek > From: r...@linux-delhi.org > To: il...@frodo.hserus.net > Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 12:30:43 +0530 > Subject: Re: [ilugd] Virtual use

Re: [ilugd] Virtual users mapped to system users

2011-05-21 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Saturday 21 May 2011, Varad Gupta wrote: > Pls see => > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.courier.general/27589 > > You can replace the SQL statements with grep/awk on /etc/passwd > > These and other similar lines will need to be replaced => > > SQL=($(dosql "SELECT uid,pw,mpath,mquo

Re: [ilugd] Virtual users mapped to system users

2011-05-20 Thread Varad Gupta
2011/5/21 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) > On Saturday 21 May 2011, Varad Gupta wrote: > > > I'm trying to set up an IMAP server for virtual users with the > > > following characteristics: > > > > > > - Server is handling multiple mail domains, say "foo.com" and > > > "bar.com". > > > > > > - Mail for x.

Re: [ilugd] Virtual users mapped to system users

2011-05-20 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Saturday 21 May 2011, Varad Gupta wrote: > > I'm trying to set up an IMAP server for virtual users with the > > following characteristics: > > > > - Server is handling multiple mail domains, say "foo.com" and > > "bar.com". > > > > - Mail for x...@foo.com gets delivered to system user x.foo.co

Re: [ilugd] Virtual users mapped to system users

2011-05-20 Thread Varad Gupta
Hi characteristics: > > - Server is handling multiple mail domains, say "foo.com" and "bar.com". > > - Mail for x...@foo.com gets delivered to system user x.foo.com; mail for > x...@bar.com gets delivered to system user x.bar.com. > > Now is it possible to have an IMAP server handle logins of the

[ilugd] Virtual users mapped to system users

2011-05-20 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
Hi, I'm trying to set up an IMAP server for virtual users with the following characteristics: - Server is handling multiple mail domains, say "foo.com" and "bar.com". - Mail for x...@foo.com gets delivered to system user x.foo.com; mail for x...@bar.com gets delivered to system user x.bar.com.