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On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 09:41 -0500, kashani wrote: |
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> Ow Mun Heng wrote: |
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> > Just wondering, can I say, have a virtual domain user user1@localdomain |
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> > (where localdomain is really local but just hosted as a virtual domain) |
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> > which can have SSH/FTP access using the same password to access their |
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> > email? |
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> My understanding is the are two major ways to solve this. |
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> 1. pam + db for all accounts including local accounts |
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> Some db magic with pam or whatever local auth you do. This way the user |
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> still has some sort of central auth and doesn't end up with 2 different |
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> passwords and so forth. All accounts are virtual, but users designated |
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> as local also get shell, ftp, etc. |
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> 2. One localdomain and all others are truly virtual. |
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> set localdomain.com as local in your virtual config and everything else |
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> to virtual. The pop/imap/smtp daemons should auth locally and it pretty |
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> much just works in my experience. The caveat is that it is only feasible |
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> to have one domain as local and it's generally an all local or all |
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> virtual sort of thing. Mixing and matching local and virtual users |
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> within the same domain can be painful and hard to manage. |
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> I did #2 since it's easy and I like sleep. I use Postfix, Courier, and |
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#2 is really very straightforward and that's already accomplishable. |
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However, in the name of experimentation, I'm looking towards how to |
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implement #1. if you have any more leads, do tell. |
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