Sorry, I really should have been more clear. Here's what I'm looking for:
A user, let's call him Patrick, has to get POP mail at night when he
gets home. He also has to be able to read mail via SSH & Mutt during
the day.
Here's the kicker: it is strictly forbidden for users on this system
to send shell passwords out in cleartext, so a .qmail file forwarding
to his home dir is out. Use of APOP is also out for various reasons.
Have I painted myself into a corner, or is there some permissions
magic I can work on his vpopmail Maildir to pull this off?
Thanks,
-Kit
At 12:57 PM -0600 2/23/01, Ken Jones wrote:
>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
