[horde] Authentication on Red Hat style systems

[Luis Felipe Marzagao]

Hello, I'm the author of this howto on CentOS 5:

http://wiki.horde.org/CentOS5InstallationNotes

As you can see, I use dovecot (imap server) as authentication system. 
It's quite simple and I don't have to mess with anything. But yes, of 
course my users are created via adduser, system-config-users, because my 
imap server is in the same machine as horde installation. Maybe dovecot 
can manage other authentication methods, like mysql, ldap etc. and I 
can't see why you can't configure IMP to look for your imap server 
located on another machine (alter horde/imp/config/servers.php).

$servers['imap'] = array(
     'name' => 'IMAP Server',
     'server' => 'localhost', <--------
     'hordeauth' => true,
     'protocol' => 'imap/notls',
     'port' => 143,
//    'maildomain' => 'example.com',
//    'smtphost' => 'smtp.example.com',
//    'smtpport' => 25,
//    'realm' => '',
//    'preferred' => '',
);


Another recommendatio is to donwload horde from the website or via cvs. 
The rpm packages sometimes are not updated.

Cheers,
Luis Felipe



Em 19-09-2009 08:26, Ken Smith escreveu:
> Hi, new to this list. I've just set up a Horde test system using the 
> rpm's available through their yum repository. So far so good.
>
> I'd appreciate hearing from other Horde users on RedHat style systems 
> (RHEL, Centos or Fedora) as to which option they have used for Horde 
> authentication. The module for php/pam seems to be 
> deprecated/unavailable, obviously /etc/passwd won't work as the 
> passwords are in /etc/shadow, I've tried sasl and I haven't quite 
> finished that test. I know I could use .htpasswd or IMAP (& others), 
> but my IMAP server is on another machine. I'd like to try to get auth 
> working locally, if possible using pam/sasl or some method that links 
> the Horde login credentials to those for the users shell. So that if 
> the IMAP server is down/inaccessible then its only that service that 
> is broken.
>
> I've seen the various howto's on the wiki for Centos4 & Fedora (2 I 
> think it was) but the details become scarce when it comes to auth 
> configuration. The mailing list hasn't discussed this issue for RedHat 
> derived systems recently.
>
> Suggestions most welcome.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Ken
>