[horde] Changing Authentication Methods (slightly OT)

[Ilya]

Rodolfo, you are confusing Horde/IMP which is an advanced web mail client,
and functionality of
an IMAP server. It will depend entirely on IMAP server where to store users,
how to authenticate them and etc.
Horde/IMP will just use existing setup, it is by no means replacement for
the server.

I am not up to date on uw-imap, so I cant tell you if uw can provide a black
box functionality. However Cyrus imap server
was designed to be black box. The mail is stored completely independed of
user home directories, mailboxes can be subdivied between
different partitions and etc.
To use cyrus you will have to convert your mbox mailboxes to proprietary
Cyrus. once you do it, users with shell access will not have .mail folders.
So the access to mailbox will be the same for both users with shell account
or without. You will have to involve PAM to have
single authetication source. otherwise you might end up with two sets of
passwords for users with shell.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Rodolfo Segleau" <segleaur at mechanus.org>
To: <horde at lists.horde.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 10:28 PM
Subject: Re: [horde] Changing Authentication Methods (slightly OT)


> > ----- 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
>
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