[horde] H3 auth composite

[webmaster at mairie-meyzieu.fr]

Thanks  Jan for your explanations. We finally success to improve this and it works !

 Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> a écrit :

>
> Zitat von webmaster at mairie-meyzieu.fr:
>
>> Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> a écrit :
>>>
>>> Am 05.08.2011 17:41, schrieb webmaster at mairie-meyzieu.fr:
>>>> I clarify my thoughts:
>>>> I would like my horde users won't have to authenticate twice
>>>
>>> so use IMP-Auth for Horde over IMAP and your users
>>> have only to know their mail username/password
>>
>>>> Do I have a way to retrieve this information by a connection with a
>>>> SQL database (or other)  to compare it with the login and authenticate
>>>> automatically imp instead of
>>>> the manual input... to make this transparent to my users?
>>>> Has anyone ever tried to set up an equivalent?
>>>
>>> no because why should anyone use two different authentications
>>> while the front-end is using a single-login to trigger both?
>>
>> Humm... it's not as simple unfortunately. Because I use a local 
>> directory for Horde with the ability for users to change their 
>> password periodically, the mail account can not be changed by the 
>> user. It is managed from external server via a provider.
>> I would just want to memorize them in order to facilitate the 
>> consultation of their mail. I could go through fetchmail, but I 
>> would lose the central management of mail accounts and their setup. 
>> Also, I would lose the regular check from the mail server by imp 
>> without a manual action.
>> I see my problem raises many questions... :-)
>
> If you have the users' IMP passwords in a database, you can use a 
> preauthenticate hook in IMP to rewrite the user credentials, i.e. the 
> password while activating transparent authentication in IMP. See 
> http://janschneider.de/news/5/343 for details.
>
> Jan.
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