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On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 10:30:50AM +0100, Jeremy Pearson wrote:
Debian3/Exim/UW-IMAP/qpopper/procmail/squirrelmail, and having pretty much
I would use dovecot for imap and pop3. I would favour maildrop to procmail. I would also use ilohamail instead of squirrelmail
My question is: when I come to add user accounts for the 150+ mail users, do I need to create a standard login account for each person, or is there a neater (and more secure) way? Each user needs only SMTP, POP3 and webmail access to this machine, and surely not a login account too? I just don't want the kids trying to SSH in when I'm not looking.
I would probably maintain the accounts with PAM and /etc/passwd if it's just 150+ people. You give them a false shell, /bin/false so they can't use SSH. I don't think you should rob students of the pleasure of SSH access mind. I have not figured out SSL certs on my apache server so I have had to disable shell from accounts of my users who use webmail. Ideally you should use LDAP, but I have not had any good experiences with it. I try not to use things I don't understand.
PS: Regarding interesting locations for future meetings - I'd be happy to host a meeting over here on the Scillies. There's not a huge amount of Linux going on over here just yet, but a meet-up/convention might just get the chattering classes over here interested..
It would be nice to at least visit the Scillies. I've never been. :) Btw, I will be home @prazefarm.co.uk for the entire month of September. Once again you could save yourself doing this manually by just popping Skolelinux in the CD drive of the server: http://www.skolelinux.org/portal/index_html -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.