[Dovecot] better way to create home dirs for mail servers

[ramana]

Dear all,

Autodir is for creating home directories and group directories
much better then pam_mkhomedir as pam_mkhomedir does suffer
some limitations like,

1) There are some applications which never need to authenticate users
But they need home dirs -- for example mail servers configured to use
home dirs for mail delivery and storage but not configured to use pam.

2) Some do use other ways to authenticate, bypassing pam all together.

3) Servers must be root so that pam can create home dirs. Otherwise
make /home similar in permissions to /tmp

And there are other interesting features with Autodir like transparent
backup for 24x7 online systems and many more.

Autodir uses autofs kernel module to transparently create home dirs
And for more information check http://www.intraperson.com/autodir/

And here is Autodir-HOWTO
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/intraperson/Autodir-HOWTO.html?download

Regards
ramana

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