[Dovecot] Will pay $500 towards a Dovecot feature

Johannes Berg johannes at sipsolutions.net
Thu May 24 16:10:26 EEST 2007


On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 08:33 +0200, Steffen Kaiser wrote:

> It might, but the server doesn't.
> Many IMAP servers do not allow users to have SSH access on the box, but 
> prefer locking them down, e.g. with Webinterfaces or IMAP. Also, Dovecot 
> has other ways of authentification, e.g. Virtual Users.

You need to start distinguishing between "SSH the protocol" and "SSH the
shell implementation", afaict the protocol should allow any use like
this without ever granting access to a shell, like sftp-server etc.

johannes
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