All users are local, and the IMAP tree is built under their home directory. I do set their shell to /dev/false if they should only have e-mail. Security is enough of a reason to look into it further, however!
Rod > Maybe I'm off topic. WHere do you keep your user accounts at the moment? > are they all local users? > Most exploits and vulnerabilities are local -- they only apply to your > machine if you have (other) local users. So it's more secure to have > "virtual" users via nsswitch / pam /etc and some db (ldap, mysql > preferably). > There are more reasons - but this is the most compelling one I think. > > Michael Moritz > > Rod Rodolico wrote: > >>ok, this is a basic question. I am a small IPP (60 domains, 200 users) and I >>see a lot of >>stuff about ldap. I searched the web and got some basic info on what it does, >>but the big >>question is, how would it be helpful to me? I also run MySQL services, but >>mainly the server >>does smtp, imap, pop, http and dns (exim, courier, apache and bind). One box, >>200 users, is >>there any reason I should consider dns? >> >>BTW, I also maintain three other web servers for people and use them all as >>backup servers >>(using rsync) for each other, but I guess that is not part of the issue here. >> >>Thanks, >> >>Rod >> >> >> > > > -- > Please note that this account is being filtered using anti UCE systems. If > you send email to > this account make sure that it could not be mistaken as UCE. > > -- Latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the world's population.
