Autodir

Autodir is a gpl product that will automatically create home directories on the fly. Unfortunately, it wouldn't work for me. I tried for awhile last night to get it to work on my Debian ("etch") install, but no go. It kept on crashing whenever I would try to view a directory. Maybe it doesn't work with nss-mysql. It says it works with smtp daemons, but that wasn't happening. Oh well.

I was trying to do this so that courier could create maildirs for new virtual email addresses without human intervention. I ended up giving Apache sudo rights to create new home directories. Very much a work around and not very elegant, but I think it will be reliable.