I think Ldap has to be THE solution. There are varios trials about this
issue. Good references are
www.ispman.org -- look especially at the
Building Scalable ISPs with open-source softwares
http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/September2000/article173.shtml
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Regards,
Mahmut
Kevin J Menard wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> I'm looking at a deploying a light webmail system. I am debating
> over
> what auth method would be best for the task. As far as I can
> fortell,
> I'd probably only need something for the web server to authenticate
> against (to allow one to send mail), and something for Cyrus to
> authenticate against (to retrieve mail).
>
> Honestly, I don't see this being a very large user database (and I
> use the term generically), but I like to do things with scalability
> in
> mind, so if there ever were a time when my user database grew to a
> decent size, I would not be pressed with the even harder issue of
> converting an existing system to a newer one.
>
> Would the SASL DB provide such functionality? My only fear with this
> is it cannot be load balanced very well (afaik), as postfix (my mta
> of
> choice) does not like to use NFS. (Please correct me if I'm wrong
> anywhere here).
>
> I was thinking perhaps a MySQL solution, but even though I can
> isolate
> the rbdm on another machine, it can only be distributed on one
> machine
> (once again, afaik).
>
> So, if anyone out there has done something similar or just has a good
> idea in general, please let me know.
>
> Thanks.
>
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> Best regards,
> Kevin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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