[horde] passwd again

[Hendrik Noack]

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: horde [mailto:horde-bounces at lists.horde.org] Im Auftrag von Frank
> Lienhard
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. November 2016 14:45
> An: horde at lists.horde.org
> Betreff: Re: [horde] passwd again
> 
> 
> 
> On 11/16/2016 01:32 PM, Arjen de Korte wrote:
> > Citeren Frank Lienhard <frank at mclien.de>:
> >
> >> I installed passwd according to official doku via pear.
> >>
> >> But I get:
> >> No backend configured for this host
> >> when trying to change passwords as user.
> >>
> >> I understand there is some backend to configure, but I lack the
> >> knowledge where to define and more important what backend (most
> post
> >> talk about ldap, which seams wrong in my setup, since I don't use any
> >> ldap server. So what is the default way of how horde organizes
> >> user/passwd)?
> >
> > Horde by default uses the IMAP server to authenticate users. If you
> > didn't change that, you're the only one who can tell how your IMAP
> > server authenticates users. The backend you need to configure, depends
> > on the method your IMAP server uses.
> >
> >
> >
> Is that still so, if I use the groupware variante of horde (without the
webmail
> part) ?

So how do you organize your user accounts? The webinterface offers quite a
lot of options for user authentication, even if you don't use an IMAP
server. If you have local user accounts only on that server, you could use
PAM for authentication, simply because most linux distributions have PAM
already set up. If you have a Microsoft environment with Active Directory
running, LDAP ist he way to go, since AD is just a little different from
normal LDAP. There a lots of good tutorials out there for AD.

I personally use the webmail edition. User authentication is done via PAM,
but not in Horde directly. I have my SMTP and IMAP server set to
authenticate users against PAM. I have my users and groups in an Active
Directory which is connected to PAM via winbind (or sssd in newer
installations). That way I can ues different services, but always the same
authentication mechanism.

Best regards,
Hendrik

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