From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 23 09:21:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA02951 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 09:21:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpham.uni-mb.si (alpham.uni-mb.si [164.8.1.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA02932 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 09:21:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vrtin@uni-mb.si) Received: from unicorn.uni-mb.si by alpham.uni-mb.si (PMDF V5.1-9 #7554) with ESMTP id <01ITXI4DGS540001HM@alpham.uni-mb.si> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 19:19:58 MET Received: from localhost (david@localhost) by unicorn.uni-mb.si (8.8.8/8.8.8/19970814) with SMTP id SAA03989; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 18:19:57 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 18:19:55 +0100 (CET) From: David Vrtin Subject: Re: POP3/IMAP e-mail boxes without users In-reply-to: To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Cc: Leif Neland , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-to: David Vrtin Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-No-Archive: Yes Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 23 Feb 1998 patl@phoenix.volant.org wrote: > > DV> I would like to create POP3/IMAP e-mail boxes without adding > > DV> accounts for all the users, with Cryus. I need to build to use > > DV> some other form of authentication than /etc/passwd. > > You can add users to /etc/passwd without giving them a shell or a home. > But that potentially opens up other services (and possible security > holes.) For example, what happens if someone uses one of those accounts > when logging into your FTP server? Yes... :( > With cyrus, the easiest solution is to tweak pwcheck to use an > auxilliary password file. (Pwcheck comes with cyrus. If you Where can I get such pwcheck (and other "utilities" to create such password file) ? David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message