Steve Moyes wrote: > 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. So, you are trying to map usernames from one system to another? I'm not really clear on why this would be a good idea unless you are merging 2 systems and trying to avoid username collisions? You might be able to do it with the vlogin plugin (but I think it would require some modification), or you can use an imap proxy like perdition which can do this already. Ken > > 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 >>> >>> -- -- Ken Anderson Pacific.Net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
