Today we will create rpm packages for the installation of a mail server (IMAP – pop3) .Our reference software is Courier, available as a source to the following link.La creation rpm package is required when you want to use same packages to other servers (or a few) .I went to use the latest available release… Read More: Building Courier RPMs »
PAM stands for Pluggable Authentication Modules. It’s a mechanism used to define authentication policies. If you go to the /etc/pam.d directory, you can find a lot of files, each linked to a different application. Let’s take the /etc/pam.d/halt file as a first example: #%PAM-1.0 auth sufficient pam_rootok.so auth required pam_console.so #auth include system-auth account required… Read More: Understand PAM »