[horde] Changing Authentication Methods (slightly OT)

[Rodolfo Segleau]

> ----- Message from chuck at horde.org ---------
>     Date: Wed,  4 Sep 2002 15:20:50 -0400
>     From: Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>
> Reply-To: Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>
>  Subject: Re: [horde] Changing Authentication Methods (slightly OT)
>       To: horde at lists.horde.org
> 
> Quoting Rodolfo Segleau <segleaur at mechanus.org>:
> 
> > Understood (and was what I suspected), so the 64 dollar question is: will
> > the old users still have access to their original mbox and mail/ files?
> > Checking out the sql code, the users created in the database would have a
> > uid and a password separate from the PAM module... so where would their
> mbox
> > files be kept or how would sendmail know where to keep the spool files?
> 
> They would not exist to PAM. You are conflating Horde SQL users and system
> users; unless you do something outside of Horde to change things, they have
> _nothing_ to do with each other.
> 
> -chuck
> 

I know that, I would have to create some type of bridge between horde_users and 
PAM, but as far as the mbox files and the spool? Where would those emails be 
stored, if there isn't a /home/~user directory for them? I don't see a table 
that would store the emails (a la DBMail), so I am presuming that they would be 
stored at a local level, but the local IMAP and sendmail redirect email based 
on the user's PID file locally on the OS. Maybe I'm completely off my rocker 
and all of this is stored in the VFS system?

Cheers, 

Rodolfo