From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 20 20:34: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D72D637B404 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:34:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0544.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.194.34] helo=mindspring.com) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17LFBI-0005aW-00; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:33:52 -0700 Message-ID: <3D129E79.A32431EB@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:33:13 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lamont Granquist Cc: Jason Andresen , "Brandon D. Valentine" , Darren Pilgrim , Evan Dower , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cyrus vs. UW IMAP (was: Re: I Volunteer) References: <20020620191939.U1870-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Lamont Granquist wrote: > Cyrus imapd is a real pain in the ass to administer local user accounts > with though. You mean that it doesn't integrate well with the UNIX credentials system. THe issue here is that Cyrus needs to be able to hook create/delete actions on accounts, and UNIX fails to provide a means of doing this. I look at this as a UNIX deficiency. You can actually get around it by using "pw" and utilizing the script hooks it has. The easiest real fix for this would be to write a PAM module to cause the UNIX users to authenticate against the Cyrus database. > The cyradm program is extremely deficient. Not a big issue, I think. Writing scripts to encapsulate it and be "less deficient" is really very trivial. > Its great if you > want to offer people imap e-mail without offering them shell access. For > local access, though, there's a higher administrative overhead. I'm back > to using the UW imapd even though I know it is a poorer codebase... I recommend you do not publicize the IP addresses of the servers, if they are net accessible outside your organization. 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message