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@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
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