On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 10:26, ksaenz wrote: > Hi all, > just wondering if anyone has built an email server that would work under > a windows environment. I would like to build an email server that would > build mail boxes for users in a w2k environment. I was thinking of using > samba to authenticate the users my issue is creating users (I think > samba could handle this as well). > > Would I be correct in my assumption?
Disclaimer: I haven't actually done this - this is all my arse talking here. :-) You should be able to take care of all of this using PAM (pluggable authentication modules). Your Linux box already uses PAM to authenticate, most likely with modules that just do usual Unix auth with the shadow file. There's a pam_smb module that can authenticate against an SMB server available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pamsmb/ . You can also use PAM to do on-demand account creation once a user has been authenticated. A google search like http://www.google.com/search?q=account+creation+pam should help you out there. Other useful resources would be the Linux-PAM System Administrator's Guide (http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/pam.html) and the User Authentication HOWTO (http://www.linux.org.au/LDP/HOWTO/User-Authentication-HOWTO/index.html). G'luck! -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
