Aaron Videtto writes:
> For security reasons, I do not want to create Linux accounts on the Linux
> Box. We are an educational institution and we teach networking. Naturally,
> the students are curious.
>
> Anyway if I install open LDAP on the server, and run the authdaemond.ldap
> will that work?
Yes.
> My next question is can LDAP assign ownership to the
> directories? Every user will need a directory to store their mail
> directory, but without creating the Linux account I am wondering how to
> assign the user rights to the directory, does LDAP do that? Thank you for
> your time.
Usually you will reserve one system userid and groupid for all of your
virtual accounts, and set the same userid/groupid for all mailboxes.
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Sam
