On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Dave Sherohman wrote: > At work, we're looking at hosting a Large Number of email accounts. I've > successfully convinced at least my immediate boss that it would make sense to > go with something sendmail/procmail-based, running under something unixy. > Now I'm being asked a lot of questions about details which are a little out > of my depth... > > The primary part that I'm not familiar with is running mail accounts without > corresponding system (login) accounts. I assume that this is standard for > large mail hosts, but wouldn't mind being told that I'm wrong. If this is > what we're likely to want to do, where can I find information on how to do > it? > > (OTOH, we need per-user procmail configurations, which implies that the users > would need something like a home directory. Which could easily mean that the > better course would be to set them up as real system accounts and give them > /bin/false as their shell.) I'd recommend LDAP using nss_ldap and pam_ldap, and then pam_mkhomedir (to create the home directories automatically). Pretty simple solution, when you get down to it.. See the page for nss_ldap (search from freshmeat) -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500