Re: pop servers

["R.I.Pienaar" <rip@pinetec.co.za>]

On Mon Feb 14, 2000 at 04:54:24PM -0500, Jay Christner wrote:
> Are are using UW's imapd and ipop3d in conjuction with pam_ldap and
> nss_ldap and everything is working fine.  
> As far as I know qpopper doesn't support PAM does it?  That may be part of
> your problem, but ye, pam_ldap requires entries in the /etc/passwd

yes, it does support pam

> file, UNLESS you use nss_ldap.  With nss_ldap you need to us the
> posixAccount objectclass and the corrosponding attributes for normal UNIX
> accounts.  You specify the uid/gid/gecos/home directory, etc. in those
> attributes just like the /etc/passwd file.

ok, I will check this out...

> The other options is just to leave accounts in the passwd file and use *'s
> for passwords, and then use pam_ldap to lookup passwords in
> LDAP.  However, this is a pain because you still have two sources for
> accounts.

not really an option in my case, we dont want things in /etc/passwd

> My advice is to use nss_ldap (you can get it from www.padl.com or use
> RedHat RPMS if you use RedHat 6.1)


thanks, will give it a try, i am running it on a DEC box with redhat, been
building everything from source etc.