[horde] snapshot installation questions

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Tony Earnshaw <tonni at billy.demon.nl>:

> Ermmm ... where do you think Imap gets its authrization from? Unix/Linux
> /etc/passwd etc., NIS or ldap is the answer (/etc/nsswitch.conf). Mine
> gets it from both files and ldap. That bit's all right, it's the Horde
> settings that don't work properly with ldap. It comes far too short at
> the moment, I'm sure Chuck would admit to it being "work in progress."

If you find it lacking, and you use it, you need to submit patches to
improve it, or you need to hire someone to do so. This is open source
software. Everything is a work in progress, and I don't have time to spend
on everything in Horde anymore. People need to step up.

> > Are you saying that the
> > groups/users/permissions settings are only for SQL authentication?
> 
> They don't work properly with ldap anyway. I tried. Mine get stuffed
> into MySQL horde_categories. However, that doesn't work properly for me
> yet, either (if I try to share tasks, calendars etc. it doesn't work).
> Just about everything else (many Horde subcomponents) works brilliantly.

This is all bull. There is currently not an LDAP categories backend; that
much is true. But it does NOT MATTER what auth backend you use; groups and
permissions will work anyway. Of course user admin is dependent on your user
backend.

> > If so, and if there's a payoff, I'll consider that.  What kinds
> > of things can be controlled with groups and permissions?
> 
> For me, nada. It doesn't seem to match up with any rights, but perhaps
> that's me.

That is all you.

-chuck

--
Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck at horde.org>
"People ask me all the time what it will be like living without otters."
 - Google, thanks to Harpers