[horde] An Easy Way For Client Cert Auth?

[lst_hoe02 at kwsoft.de]

Zitat von Christian Felsing <pug at felsing.net>:

> unfortunately ingo does not seem to read correct horde auth data, so a
> hook must be implemented:
>
> ./ingo/config/hooks.php has following content:
>
> ---cut here---
> <?php
>
> class Ingo_Hooks
> {
>     public function transport_auth($driver)
>     {
>         return array(
>                 'euser' => $_SERVER["HTTP_SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_EMAIL"],
>                 'password' => sha1(rand()),
>                 'username' => $_SERVER["HTTP_SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_EMAIL"]
>             );
>     }
>
> }
> ---cut here---
>
> password is a random value, because my certificate authentication based
> solution does not need passwords (which are always forgotten by users)
> and does not care about passwords.
>
> The feature "Automatic authentication as a certain user" is a very nice
> feature, if that "certain user" is controlled by a client certificate.

How does it work to authenticate to the IMAP Mailserver in this case?  
Is this also possible with certificates or is some mapping needed with  
a IMAP master user?

Regards

Andreas