Kit Halsted wrote:
>
> Hi-
>
> I'm using Qmail 1.03 & vpopmail 4.9.6-1 on OpenBSD 2.8 -stable.
> Everything works as expected & I'm a happy camper. Of course, there
> is one problem, or I wouldn't be writing...
>
> I have virtualized our primary domain so shell users won't be sending
> their passwords all over the net in cleartext. This is fine with 5
> out of 6 consultants, but one guy used telnet & Pine extensively on
> our old system & really wants that functionality. I'm thinking it'll
> be fine, just set him up for ssh & Mutt & set a symlink for
> /home/vpopmail/domains/ourdomain.com/user/Maildir in /home/user. Of
> course, he gets a permission denied error. I know the virtual user
> Maildir has to be owned by vpopmail:vchkpw. Is this a Catch-22, or
> does anybody know of a workaround for this?
>
> TIA,
> -Kit
The easiest work around is to add a forward from the virtual
account to his local /etc/passwd account.
Either of these two forwards should work
&[EMAIL PROTECTED]
&user
Where user = his shell login.
Ken Jones
