[tpop3d-discuss]auth-flatfile problem (possible bug)

[Stuart Gall]

Hello,
I have discovered (what I consider) a bug in the auth-flatfile.
I have used this directive many times on servers with many virtual 
hosts.

This time I am setting up a mailserver for a single domain, but I do 
not want the mail accounts to have unix logons.
so I do not want to use auth-passwd

So I just setup a password file for the email server and tried to use

auth-flatfile-passwd-file: /fullpath/to/the/passwd/file

I tried to logon using
user username
pass password

This drove me mad because I just kept getting authentication failures
which I could not trace. tried -d tried -d -v tried strace

Eventually I tried (as usual)

auth-flatfile-passwd-file: /usr/exim/virtual/$(domain)/passwd

and log on with
user username@domain
pass password

This works fine

So
1. Why does flatfie require the use of virtual domains
2. Is there a way to do password type authentication without using 
/etc/shadow and without having to include the domain in the user logon.


Thanks.

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Stuart Gall
Systems Administrator
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No user serviceable parts inside?  Ill be the judge of that!