[OpenAFS] AFS + Qmail-LDAP

[Russ Allbery]

Luis Bivar Ramos <lbramos@netcabo.pt> writes:

> When I create a user or a group named vmail, pts doesn't let me create
> the other (user or group, depending on which was created first) with the
> same name:

AFS groups have nothing to do with Unix groups.  Furthermore, GIDs and
UIDs in AFS have no required relationship with the mapping in the local
/etc/passwd file.

> I've created a volume for "home" directory, but everything inside are
> just simple directories. Is it possible to associate a user/group to a
> volume, that is, making vmail on the home volume?

You're trying too hard.  Just map whatever UID and GID owns the
directories in AFS to the user and group "vmail" in /etc/passwd and
/etc/group.

> When running qmail, this error occurs:
 
> "@4000000040b691ae30ed65f4 delivery 613: deferral:
> Unable_to_switch_to_/home/luis:_access_denied._(#4.3.0)/"

I'm betting this is a completely different problem.  Is qmail running with
AFS tokens?

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>