> Srinivas Patnaik wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I am using squirrelmail-1.4.4 along with courier-imap.
> > I have used retrieveuserdata-0.9 plugin to retrieve user information from
> > the /etc/passwd file. The problem is that this file is in my imap server,
> > rather
> > than on the server on which squirrelmail runs. So, is there any way to
> > access these
> > information from the imap server, instead of using the local machine?
> >
> > OS: Debian Sarge 3.1
> > MTA: Postfix
>
> Sounds like you need a network file system solution (plenty of options
> out there, but beyond the scope of this mailing list) through which you
> can access the file. If you have a multiple server system, I'm
> surprised that you don't also have a more sophisticated way of storing
> user data (which might be easier to configure with this plugin),
> especially give that giving PHP *any* kind of access to /etc/passwd
> isn't that good of an idea.
>
> -paul
Hi Paul,
You mentioned about some nfs solution. Can you elaborate a bit on this ?
Srinivas
-------------------------------------------------------
SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies
from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles,
informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to
speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77&alloc_id492&op=click
--
squirrelmail-users mailing list
Posting Guidelines:
http://squirrelmail.org/wiki/wiki.php?MailingListPostingGuidelines
List Address: [email protected]
List Archives:
http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user
List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id)95
List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
