I am looking at using my Xserve to host mail accounts for users and
their accounts would also allow them web space. I am not interested
in users having to do lookups to find each other since it is more of
an ISP scenario. Is their any reason to use OD? In short what is
the limitation for using Stand Alone Mode for authentication and
simply choosing Crypt or Shadow passwords when I create users.
None, and if you only have one server w/o any Mac clients to
authenticate anything other than standalone mode does nothing for you.
However if you're trying to host an ISp style environement you're
probably better off w/o system accounts at all. You might further
find OS X Server itself is overkill and that OS X is just fine for
the task. See George's Exim/Courier/MySQL set up at
maxo.captainnet.net. I'd further extend that with using ProFTPd
(which can also key of MySQL and can create new directories for sites
on the fly) along with Pache's mod_vhost_aliases. We've successfully
deployed numerous ISPs along these lines.
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-dhan
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