Re: [gentoo-server] Comments on IMAP Server (cyrus/courier/dovecot)

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 15:00 -0500, kashani wrote:
> A. Khattri wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, kashani wrote:
> >
> >>Well yeah, but what happens when they ssh or ftp to the server? That's
> >>the part I'm confused about. How does vpopmail auth them locally for
> >>things other than mail which goes back to the original question.
> >
> >
> > Our shell server and web servers are separate from our mail server but
> > there's no reason you couldn't run this setup on the same server.
> >
> > Using libnss-mysql, you can have ssh and ftp also authenticate out of a
> > MySQL database (the same database if you want). And since Pine and mutt on
> > the shell server are configured to use IMAP, shell users can login and
> > check email from there too.

Ah.. I see, since everything is stored in the db, you essentially are
using the db to get the passwords. (this is like LDAP and
posixAccounts). i would believe that this is also do-able via
pam /passwd files, the caveat is then that they have to be on the same
server else some rsync jobs to sync the passwords etc.

> >
> > Basically all of this has allowed us to move to an almost completely
> > virtual setup where ordinary users dont have any "real" system accounts at
> > all.
>
> And that isn't option #1 aka, stuff everything in a db and do central
> auth from there" how? See I'm even loosing sleep just talking about
> option #1. The rest of you have been warned. :)

Looking forward to loosing sleep and thinning hair :-)

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