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Re: .db based passwd/shadow files for Linux (BSDi style)
- To: Ariel Biener <ariel(at-nospam)fireball.tau.ac.il>
- Subject: Re: .db based passwd/shadow files for Linux (BSDi style)
- From: Schlomo Schapiro <schapiro(at-nospam)mobileye.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 09:05:31 +0200 (IST)
- Cc: Gavrie Philipson <gavrie(at-nospam)philipson.co.il>, Israeli Linux Mailing List <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>, Koby Schwartz <schwartz(at-nospam)aristo.tau.ac.il>
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On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Ariel Biener wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Gavrie Philipson wrote:
>
> > Maybe not a direct answer, but it might be helpful:
> >
> > - Have you considered LDAP? It can fully replace NIS, and can use
> > various backends, including ldbm and various SQL dbs.
>
> As I wrote in my e-mail, LDAP is currently not an option.
>
> > - Have you considered Cyrus for email services? This way, you won't need
> > to ad the users to the passwd file at all. Cyrus can also use any
> > backend that you like.
>
> No, we'd rather use postfix at this time.
Isn't postfix just a MTA ? cyrus only handles the storage and retrievel of
users mail, nothing else. Actually there is a commercial product that uses
LDAP, postfix and cyrus to build a mail server (SuSE Email Server II). I
got it and it performs very well (though I don't have 50k users).
Schlomo
>
> --Ariel
> >
> > -- Gavrie.
> >
>
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> Ariel Biener
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