Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 00:23:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Barnett <mbarnett@cais.net> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Password Distribution / Email Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007270022380.44073-100000@nargul.systems.cais.net>
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Everyone, We are redesigning our email scheme, and I am looking for an alternative to pushing passwords around on dozens of machines. Right now, we have 10 mail machines for mail exchanging/pop access for our domain. (5 for mx .. 5 for pop .. both setup on a VIP behind a Foundry load balancing switch). The 11th machine exports an nfs file system that all 10 machines mount (deliver and cucipop have been hacked to look in the nfs mounted file system as opposed to /var/mail) It also generates and pushes across the aliases, and creates the master.passwd file and has each of the 10 individual machines rebuild their local password file using the command /usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb -p -s 15 /etc/master.passwd There are currently 24054 entries in the master.passwd file, so this process is going to be unmanageable very soon. We have a few ideas for getting pop to authenticate off of the database, but even if we do this, we will still have to maintain the password files for local delivery. Has anyone been successful in running a mail server that does not contain the authoritative list of users, but gets this information from some central location? (preferably from an sql database). Thanks for any insights. -Michael Barnett CAIS Internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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