[Dovecot] LDAP Authentication - Home Directory Creation

[Sven Hartge]

Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On 2.12.2011, at 0.41, Sven Hartge wrote:

>> Or switch to a virtual setup, where the users don't get real users on
>> the imap server (they can't log in, so they don't need any real user
>> on that server) and every mail is owned by your virtual mail user.

> Well, it of course makes things easier, but from security point of
> view it's worse.. 

Of course. But using real users only works if every user is a PosixUser
in LDAP (i.e. has a uidNumber and gidNumber). If this is not the case,
then you are forced to use a virtual mail user setup.

> I hope some day there won't be any problems with Dovecot using
> multiple UIDs.

Meaning?

Grüße,
Sven.

-- 
Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.