[Dovecot] mail accounts for users without home dirs

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 10:01, Bob Hall wrote:
> > They don't have to have real accounts, just the uids have to be 
> > reserved for them. For example you could just decide that uids above 
> > 10000 are for virtual users in LDAP.
> 
> Since the UIDs don't correspond to actual system accounts, then I 
> take it that there's no OS level security?

There is. With unix accounts I mean about having the user in /etc/passwd
or equilevant. Kernel doesn't care about that, it only cares about the
uids used for files and processes.