Re: [webmin-l] Virtualmin-user in MySQL database store

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 27/Oct/2011 08:47 Kris Deugau <kd...@vi...> wrote ..
> Jamie Cameron wrote:
> > MySQL support isn't planned currently - the main issue is that Virtualmin
> > uses have to be Unix users,
> 
> Is there any underlying reason for this requirement?  A great many other 
> full hosting platforms and homegrown solutions seem to work just fine 
> with their users defined in other ways.

The reason is that mailboxes which are not Unix users cannot make use of Unix
quotas, login via FTP, use procmail, Usermin and any other service that requires
running commands or owning files as a regular user.

My counter-question is : what is the advantage of storing mailboxes in MySQL?
If the scalability of /etc/passwd is an issue, LDAP seems like a good solution..

 - Jamie