Date: 23 Feb 98 20:30:46 +0100 From: leifn@image.dk (Leif Neland) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: POP3/IMAP e-mail boxes without users Message-ID: <2d5_9802240919@swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk> References: <ML-3.3.888252872.5988.patl@asimov>
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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
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