Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 21:56:53 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: FreeBSD <freebsd@XtremeDev.com> Cc: questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Cyrus-IMAPd and postfix Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0104102156300.8329-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20010410142443.S891-100000@Amber.XtremeDev.com>
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On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, FreeBSD wrote: > 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. If you configure sasldb and pwcheck, this ought to be the default behaviour. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Whose kung-fu is the best? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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