doesn't cyrus imap address this issue? I don't think you even have
accounts for users - just mail. You might want to try it.
As for security issues, I don't know. You may lose some accountability. Do
their usernames or the single UID show up in logs?
hth
charles
On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Steven Clark wrote:
> Hi everyone once again ;)
>
> I was wondering what would be the security risks if users that don't have
> any ssh/telnet/ftp, basically no interactive access to a machine, if they
> all used the same UID?
>
> The useradd prog lets me use the same UID as long as the -o option is passed
> to it. Now I know if one does break in they would be able to read every
> shared UID's mail, anything else though really?
>
> I tried this on a test box, sendmail and imap ( using pop3 daemon ) seem to
> behave nicely.
>
> So really is their any real security risks as long as the users are kept out
> of the box?
>
> Thanks again,
> Steven
>
>
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