Thanks for setting me straight :)
-- Michael --
----- Original Message -----
From: "eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 6:59 AM
Subject: Re: creating new user account
> Michael Fair wrote:
> >
> > Your assumptions are right on.
> > (again this is all in the docs)
> >
> > PAM is the "Pluggable Authentication
> > Module" which allows you to authenticate
> > users on your system via all kinds of
> > crazy methods... LDAP, SQL databases,
> > custom programs, other crazy schemes.
> > The catch with PAM, I believe, is that
> > it is system authentication not just
> > imap authentication. So when you
> > authenticate via passwd, shadow, or
> > PAM you are actually authenticating
> > against users on your system which
> > kind of defeats the purpose of
> > closed server. However that may be
> > what you what.
>
> Actually that's not quite true. If you are authenticating with PAM they
> don't have to be real users of any sort. PAM splits it's services out.
> You actually set up a imap and pop3 section to do PAM. You could even
> have them authenticate against two different services types if you
> wanted.
>
>
> Eric
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
