[SM-PLUGINS] Re: squirrellmail & change_passwd & dovecot - kind attn Mr. Paul Lesneiwski

[Razvan S. <rs...@so...>]

> and... did it work?


Hello again,

And thanks for the ideas in your last e-mail. I promise I will look at the
links, even if I'll have to abandon dovecot and switch to Courier  :-(

Now, for the change_password plugin matter itself:

I modified the plugin it as described in my previous message, recompiled it
and I arrived in another confusing point...

When I run the chpasswd utility from the command line (I studied your source
and figured out things), it *does* change the password in
/other/passwd-like/file (for testing purpose, I use a copy of /etc/passwd,
/etc/passwd.test, to which I manually added my encrypted password, which
normally misses because of shadow). However, if I log in in Squirrelmail and
try from there, I get the message that says something like "an error was
encountered - contact system administrator". And the password *is not*
changed. /var/log/messages shows nothing...

Beyond that, I will need an automatic "service dovecot restart" after the
new password is written in the file - dovecot must "learn" the change.

The last thing is where my /some/passwd-like/file should correctly stay
(according to FHS) and with what scheme of permissions, in order for
change_passwd being able to modify it ? How should I deal with selinux, on
Fedora Core 3 where selinux-policy-targeted is enabled ?

I "feel" I'm pretty close to an acceptable solution and that's why I'm
bothering you...  ;-)

> Then why did you choose possibly the most obscure way to store
 > passwords?  Seems like most other Dovecot password schemes will already
 > work with SM plugins out of the box.

OK, could you please recommend a way to solve this by LDAP ? Which schema
should I use (I was tempted to use the nis schema) ? Could you point me to a
detailed document describing how should I combine things (Postfix with
virtual mailboxes, dovecot, OpenLDAP, vacation, etc.) ?

> look again.  vacation_local plugin replaces two of the old unmaintained
vacation plugins

I skimmed on the page of vacation local plugin and it seems very tempting.
But, again, what should I do if my users have *virtual mailboxes*
(maildirs), as described in Postfix's VIRTUAL README ?


Regards,
Razvan