[horde] Refuse users without mailbox

Paul van der Vlis paul at vandervlis.nl
Tue Mar 11 08:17:35 UTC 2008


Patrick Boutilier schreef:
> Paul van der Vlis wrote:
>> Peter Meier schreef:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>>> A customer has an installation with FTP-users and mail-users on the same
>>>> authentication mechanism.
>>>>
>>>> He don't like the fact that FTP-users can login into Horde, and sent
>>>> mail with it. FTP-users don't have a mailbox (I am using Cyrus IMAP),
>>>> but they can login and send mail...
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to refuse users without a mailbox?
>>> how about using imap for authentication? or is there any need for
>>> ftp-users to login horde?
>> I use IMAP for authentication (I use IMP, and IMP uses IMAP). The IMAP
>> authentication says "OK" for FTP-users, because it's the same user-base.
>>
> What is the authentication backend?

In Cyrus IMAP I use saslauthd.
In saslauthd I use PAM.
And in PAM I use the traditional Unix authentication mechanism
(pam_unix.so).

With regards,
Paul van der Vlis.




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