From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 10 13:27:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.XtremeDev.com (xtremedev.com [216.241.38.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3EA337B423 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 13:27:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@XtremeDev.com) Received: by mail.XtremeDev.com (Postfix, from userid 1007) id 705F01362D; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:27:03 -0600 (MDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.XtremeDev.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F9C9D931; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:27:03 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:27:03 -0600 (MDT) From: FreeBSD To: Jan Grant Cc: questions Subject: Re: Cyrus-IMAPd and postfix In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20010410142443.S891-100000@Amber.XtremeDev.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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