[Dovecot] dovecot with postfifx with 200 users in /etc/passwd as local user

Miler Alberto Garcia Villanueva phl4kx at gmail.com
Sat Mar 3 19:26:53 EET 2007


yes are system accounts but anyone have shell, its not a problem I only like
if I use 200 users with system accounts I have problems with dovecot and how
mi users can change their password??

2007/3/3, Gerard <gerard at seibercom.net>:
>
> On Saturday March 03, 2007 at 02:07:30 (PM) Miler Alberto Garcia
> Villanueva wrote:
>
> > hi for all, someone have any experiencie with dovecot and postfix with
> 200
> > users in /etc/passwd as local user? is a funcionatly, or have some
> errors in
> > the future?, and how the users can change they passwords?, now for
> change
> > passowrd I have to use the #passwd usuerx and to add a user # adduser,
> the
> > populars commando, please some recomendation?
>
> I am assuming that these users have system accounts. Is that really
> necessary? Could you use "virtual domains / non-unix accounts" to handle
> them instead? You could employ MySQL with Postfix and Dovecot to easily
> handle that chore.
>
> http://www.postfix.com/VIRTUAL_README.html
>
> --
> Gerard
>
>        "Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind
> is
>        beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but
> the
>        wheel goes not go nearly as well with pizza!"
>
>            Dave Barry
>
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