Hi, yes.. separate credentials are one of the things that has specifically been requested. I have everything ready to go, it's just this authentication issue I have. Cheers Steve On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 13:24 +0200, Roland Fritz wrote: > Hi Steve, > > > > Hi thanx for the reply. It's not the shell access I'm bothered about.. > > allow me to explain further. > > What I was thinking is, the frontend squirrelmail is just that, nothing > > else. It will be just a webserver, serving that page. There will be no > > user accounts on there what so ever. I was thinking about having > > virtual user accounts that log into the frontend and this somehow logs > > into the actual mail server (located elsewhere) with the actual user > > accounts on that server. Now is PAM some kind of solution? and if so, > > how would I get squirrelmail to talk to PAM on another server? > > If you need anymore info, please tell me what you need. > > It is possible to seperate web server and mail server on different hosts, > but squirrelmail uses imap authentication (from the mail server) to log > the user in, it has no user database on its own. > Do you really need different users/passwords on your squirrelmail server? > > Roland. > > > On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 11:03 -0700, Tomas Kuliavas wrote: > >> > >> Steve Moyes wrote: > >> > > >> > Hi all, > >> > I've spent a few hours searching this before I posted, but if I have > >> > missed something, please feel free to flame me. > >> > Anyway.. to the point. Both of these servers are running Debian. The > >> > main mail server is running Exim4 and Dovecot and the frontend is > >> > running Squirrelmail (who'da thunk it). What I am trying to do now is > >> > have one set of credentials on the frontend that the user obviously > >> > needs to know and for those details to access the actual credentials > >> on > >> > the mail server itself, which the user doesn't need to know. > >> > Has anyone ever done this and what is involved? > >> > > >> > >> If you want to use user accounts that don't have shell access on server, > >> see > >> http://www.google.com/search?q=exim+dovecot+virtual+users > >> > >> -- > >> Tomas > > > > > > -- > > > > Ebuyer (UK) Ltd. - Registered in England and Wales No. 3941136 > > Registered Office: Ferry Road, Howden, East Yorkshire, DN14 7UW > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > > -- > > squirrelmail-users mailing list > > Posting Guidelines: > > http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines > > List Address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > List Archives: > > http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user > > List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 > > List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > -- > squirrelmail-users mailing list > Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines > List Address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user > List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 > List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users -- Ebuyer (UK) Ltd. - Registered in England and Wales No. 3941136 Registered Office: Ferry Road, Howden, East Yorkshire, DN14 7UW ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
