Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 11:04:26 -0500 From: "Simon" <simon@optinet.com> To: "freebsd-isp@freebsd.org" <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>, "Odhiambo Washington" <wash@wananchi.com> Subject: Re: POP3 but not IMAP Message-ID: <20031129160437.1C8F443F75@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20031129121911.GA41923@ns2.wananchi.com>
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Yes, this is doable and has nothing to do with FreeBSD :-) You just need a custom authentication script which would only authenticate those few :-) Good luck, it works. -Simon On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 15:19:11 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: >Hi Admins, > >I was reading an article on PAM and something interesting crossed my mind. >I am now thinking about giving services by discrimination;-) > >In our setup, everyone can do POP3. There are system users (no shells) >who can do both POP3 and IMAP. Now I want a situation where POP3 is >available to everyone while IMAP is only available to a few specified >individuals. This has been discussed in the following article (though >Linux-centric): > >http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1161/sam0009a/0009a.htm > >I believe it's doable with FreeBSD also. > >I could do this using that suggested method but I am putting all my >users in MYSQL db, but I still would like to achieve the same. I could >add a column for imap_enable for each user to achieve the effect of enable/ >disable IMAP access. > >Has anyone successfully done something akin to this? Perhaps using the >pam_mysql module or other app? > > > >-Wash > >http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html > >-- >+======================================================================+ > |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> >Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 >+======================================================================+ >
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