[horde] Users

horde at corwyn.net horde at corwyn.net
Mon Sep 15 22:41:50 UTC 2008


So if:
I configure dovecot to auth against mysql
I configure horde to auth against mysql

Then should I be able to manage users within horde?

Rick



At 06:10 PM 9/15/2008, horde at corwyn.net wrote:
>At 05:39 PM 9/15/2008, Michael Rubinsky wrote:
>Well, even if you get them to work, you won't be able to manage users
>>via horde. Those drivers don't support that. They are designed to
>>allow horde to (obviously) authenticate against an existing shadow
>>file - which is managed by the OS, not Horde, for obvious reasons.
>
>Thank you very helpful.
>
>>Not much to know about using the mySQL driver. Set the auth backend to
>>SQL, make sure the tables are present in the database, which they
>>should be, add some users....of course, your users will have to either
>>have the same login/pass as they do on the IMAP server or they will
>>have to login separately to IMP. The other option is to have your IMAP
>>server use SQL authentication, and use the SQL with custom queries
>>backend in horde to connect to the same database/tables as your IMAP
>>server.
>
>So does the default horde mysql database already have the tables in 
>it, or will I need to use a separate mySQL database? where would I 
>locate the required fields/tables required in the mySQL table?
>
>Is there a quick summary somewhere of what steps need to be done to 
>get horde to auth via mySQL? (and thus permit me to manage users within horde)?
>
>rick
>
>
>
>>Thanks,
>>mike
>>
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