From: Jo Rhett (no email)
Date: Sun Dec 03 2006 - 20:33:15 EST
Gary Mills wrote:
> We've had excellent sendmail/cyrus integration for years, with
> 35,000 users. It's done by having all users in the NIS map on
> the mail server. No modification to sendmail is necessary because
> getpwnam() returns the passwd entry for the user. Users can't log
> in to the mail server, of course, because PAM rules prevent that.
> The same thing could be done with other user databases, such as
> LDAP. Why would you ever need a different form of integration?
We've done the same by putting all user accounts into virtusertable with
the no-recursion option.
That said, it does require something to take user accounts and export
them into virtusertable/nis maps/etc. So this approach is technically
superior to what you and I are doing.
-- Jo Rhett Network/Software Engineer Net Consonance ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
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