[sork] Passwd with NIS

[Eric Rostetter]

Quoting David Tice <dtice@wheatonma.edu>:
 
> My NIS master is on machine named dragon.

Fine, not a problem...

> Horde/IMP is on my webmail machine.

Which is a NIS master/slave/client?  Does it have access to the user's
home directories?  Not that any of that is required...
 
> users Mail folders sit on a server called wizard.

Are they NFS exported?  Can the webmail access them directly via NFS/SMB/etc?
Does it run an ftp server?

> I need to set up passwd, forward, and vacation.

You can setup passwd by using a YP/NIS aware poppassd server.  Or you can
set it up natively on the web server if the web server is a NIS client and
supports PAM and you have a PAM-enabled poppassd server.  There are other
ways to do it, but those two are the cleanest.

For forward/vacation, we need more details. You can set it up over ftp
without problem, but with some potential security issues.  May be other
options but we need to know more details.

> Has any one done this?

Password -- yes.  Forwards/Vacation -- Don't know, you didn't provide
enough details.

> Can anyone help?

Yes.
 
> If you need more info email me directly.

Back at you, or if possible, keep it on the list.

> TIA
> 
> David

-- 
Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin

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