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A. Khattri wrote: |
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> On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, kashani wrote: |
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>>I've never used vpopmail, so how do they login in locally? I'd assume |
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>>you need to have /etc/pam.d/login or whatever talk to the db or |
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>>whatever, which is pretty much #1 in my opinion. Or am I missing something? |
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> In vpopmail, the FULL email address is the username (you can designate a |
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> "default domain" so that people who just use their username get this |
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> domain silently added to their username for authentication purposes). |
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> So in effect all domains are virtual. |
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> In our case, account info is stored in MySQL which vpopmail queries |
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> (vpopmail does all auth and mail deliveries). In other words, PAM is not |
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> involved in any of this! |
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Well yeah, but what happens when they ssh or ftp to the server? That's |
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the part I'm confused about. How does vpopmail auth them locally for |
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things other than mail which goes back to the original question. |
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kashani |
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