Hi Ken, That sounds perfect... I'll start playing right away. Fingers crossed. Thanks for the advice I really appreciate it. Cheers Steve On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 08:56 -0500, Ken A wrote: > 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 > >>> > >>> -- > -- 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
