2011/5/21 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) <r...@linux-delhi.org>
> On Saturday 21 May 2011, Varad Gupta wrote: > > > I'm trying to set up an IMAP server for virtual users with the > > > following characteristics: > > > > > > - Server is handling multiple mail domains, say "foo.com" and > > > "bar.com". > > > > > > - Mail for x...@foo.com gets delivered to system user x.foo.com; mail > > > for x...@bar.com gets delivered to system user x.bar.com. > > > > > > Now is it possible to have an IMAP server handle logins of the form > > > "x...@foo.com" and "x...@bar.com" and authenticate them against the > > > corresponding system users "x.foo.com" and "x.bar.com"? A > > > non-database solution would be preferred. > > > If using courier-imap and therefore courier-authlib, you can use the > > authpipe authentication module and accomplish the above. > > Thanks. > > Yes, I was planning to use Courier if possible. However, documentation > on authpipe seems to be scanty, and I'm not too familiar with Courier > beyond the basic one-to-one IMAP/POP auth against PAM. Any pointers to > documents and/or examples? > > Pls see => http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.courier.general/27589 You can replace the SQL statements with grep/awk on /etc/passwd These and other similar lines will need to be replaced => SQL=($(dosql "SELECT uid,pw,mpath,mquota FROM passwd WHERE uid='$ID'")) SQL=($(dosql "SELECT uid,pw,mpath,mquota FROM passwd WHERE uid='$ID' AND pw='$PW'")) To test if the passwd is correct (auth is OK), you can use the openssl command to generate an md5 hash and match with /etc/shadow (here i am assuming you script will run as root and can read /etc/shadow). There might be other ways to do this, but this one struck me easily. Regards -- Varad Gupta Keen & Able Computers Pvt Ltd 62, Deepak Building 13, Nehru Place New Delhi - 110019 Tel. : +91-11-26426184/5 FAX : +91-11-41808565 varad.gu...@keenable.in www.keenable.in _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
