[horde] How to switch horde login authentication to system files?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Michael Rubinsky wrote:

> Quoting Roberto Maurizzi <roberto.maurizzi at gmail.com>:
>
> > 2009/8/18 Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>
> >
> > > My problem:  all attempts at logging into horde are now rejected, for what
> > > I think is the following reason.  I'm guessing that, before I upgraded
> > > this
> > > Debian system, authentication was done via IMAP.  I'm assuming I can
> > > verify
> > > that by checking, what, the conf.php file?
> >
> >
> > Yes, but be sure to check in /var/www/horde/config/conf.php
> >
> > In the file you should find a line like:
> >
> > $conf['auth']['driver'] = 'drivername';
> >
> > You can find more info on initial configuration here
> > http://wiki.horde.org/FAQ/Admin/Config#toc11 and in the howtos
> > here http://wiki.horde.org/HowTo
> >
> > More importantly, to gain access to the system as administrator
> > again and then checking and reconfiguring it using the web
> > interface, you can edit conf.php substituting or commentig all the
> > $conf['auth'] lines with:
> >
> > $conf['auth']['admins'] = array('Administrator');
> > $conf['auth']['driver'] = 'auto';
> >
> > This will allow ANY user to login into Horde as Horde admin, and
> > they'll be able to check the configuration and (depending on file
> > permissions in the webroot) updating it.
>
> Just keep in mind that this will, of course, open up administrative
> access to EVERYBODY with access to the horde url.

SOLVED.

  somehow, the upgrade process had reset the authentication protocol
to 'imap/notls'.  i reset it to 'imap/ssl/novalidate-cert' and
authentication started to work again.  thanks for all the advice thus
far, i really appreciate it.

rday
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