Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:27:03 -0600 (MDT) From: FreeBSD <freebsd@XtremeDev.com> To: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Cyrus-IMAPd and postfix Message-ID: <20010410142443.S891-100000@Amber.XtremeDev.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0104101613400.14755-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
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On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Jan Grant wrote: > In no particular order: you can have users that only exist in Cyrus. > These need sasldb password entries. You also can have users that exist > in /etc/passwd, etc. These can also have entries in sasldb, _or_ they > can authenticate against the system passwrod database. > > That's the job of pwcheck: you (imapd, actually) give it a username and > password, and it checks it against the system database. > > You _can_ (if I recall correctly) configure cyrus to create user > mailboxes "on the fly". Otherwise, before you can deliver mail to a user > you'll need to make them a mailbox. Using cyradm to do something like: > > cm user.foobar > > is sufficient if "foobar" is a system user. Ah. Is it possible to configure pwcheck to act in a fall back manner? Meaning it checks sasldb for that user first, then system shadowed passwords? Thanks for the help. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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