What do sysadmins do?

2000-08-01 Thread Logan Bell
I'm running vpopmail, and love it. But I've ran into a problem where the passwd for a domain is the same as a login passwd for ssh. But then a user decides to change his login passwd and then forgets his domain passwd. What do you all out there do to try to keep the passwds synonomous?   Than

Re: What do sysadmins do?

2000-08-01 Thread Sean P. Scanlon
"Logan Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > --=_NextPart_000_008C_01BFFBD4.6A064EA0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > I'm running vpopmail, and love it. But I've ran into

Re: What do sysadmins do?

2000-08-01 Thread jacob martinson
try at all costs to keep these passwords different. the whole point of using ssh is to keep your system account passwords from being seen. if the pop and /etc/passwd passwords are the same you defeat the goals of ssh. jacob On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 04:20:32PM -0700, Logan Bell wrote: > I'm runni

Re: What do sysadmins do?

2000-08-01 Thread Benoit de Mulder
Sorry for my english. The most interesting feature of vpopmail is for me to allow you to separate system user from virtual users. If you are using pop3 and the same system/vpopmail passwd, you lost all advantage from ssh and can switch to telnet, the password with pop3 is sended in clear over th