From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 24 01:15:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA02718 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 01:15:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.netcetera.dk (root@sleipner.netcetera.dk [194.192.207.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA02706 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 01:15:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leifn@image.dk) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mail.netcetera.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id KAA27794 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 10:13:22 +0100 Received: by swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (0.99.970109) id AA03866; 24 Feb 98 09:19:56 +0100 From: leifn@image.dk (Leif Neland) Date: 23 Feb 98 20:30:46 +0100 Subject: Re: POP3/IMAP e-mail boxes without users Message-ID: <2d5_9802240919@swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk> References: Organization: Fidonet: Swimsuit Safari. Go for it. To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 23 Feb 98 17:54:32 patl@phoenix.volant.org wrote regarding Re: POP3/IMAP e-mail boxes without users 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. p> But that potentially opens up other services (and possible p> security holes.) For example, what happens if someone uses one p> of those accounts when logging into your FTP server? If you give the popuser a shell like "/bin/false", the user can't telnet in. And ftpd requires the shell to be in /etc/shells to allow ftp. So there is no problem with these services. p> With cyrus, the easiest solution is to tweak pwcheck to use an p> auxilliary password file. (Pwcheck comes with cyrus. If you p> aren't using it already, you may need to re-configure and rebuild p> imapd to use the external verification.) But will sendmail deliver to users not in /etc/passwd? Leif Neland leifn@image.dk --- |Fidonet: Leif Neland 2:234/49 |Internet: leifn@image.dk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message