[imp] Webmail Administration>

Tue Jul 24 17:17:02 UTC 2012

Hi Mike,

Thanks for your prompt reply. I understand there is no special
administrator account. According to the wiki, I have added the comma
delimted account that we do have access to in the  $conf['auth']['admins']
line in conf.php file in horde/config/conf.php on the mail server and in
/mail/config/conf.php on the web server.

When that user logs in, should the administrative functions be displayed?

Or should I try to delete the encrypted password for the current admin
account in SQL or IMAP, and the try to login with that account with no
password?

Thank You

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>wrote:

> Please keep discussion on list.
>
> There IS no special administrator account. Only the accounts you name in
> conf.php.  The only way to do what you want is if you are using something
> like a shared SQL database for both IMP and your mail server.
>
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> mike
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> David Goldfield <dgoldfield at gmail.com <#138b9ed73a4383f4_>> wrote:
>
> Quoting David Goldfield <dgoldfield at gmail.com <#138b9ed73a4383f4_>>
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> Thanks for your reply. Can you suggest a path to determine what
> authentication method is set up and a way change the administrator account
> to one that we know the username and password?
>
> Or should we locate MD5 or SSHA in mysql or IMAP for the administrator
> account and delete it?
>
> Thank you,
>
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>wrote:
>
>> Yes, you will have administrative access to Horde and other applications.
>>  However, this does NOT necessarily mean that you will be able to
>> add/remove email addresses from your email server. That depends entirely on
>> how Horde is setup to authenticate with the IMAP server. It's possible it
>> shares the same authentication database, but it is also very likely that it
>> does not.
>> Quoting David Goldfield <dgoldfield at gmail.com>:
>>
>>  Hi All,
>>>
>>> Have just recently started doing some IT work with a company that has
>>> horde/imp running.
>>>
>>> (Unfortunetly the previous Linux guy took off with out leaving much in
>>> the
>>> way of documentation on how horde/imp is setup.)
>>>
>>> We have root access to the horde server and access to one imp email
>>> account
>>> with username and password working.
>>>
>>> I am trying to set that one working account as the administrator, so that
>>> we can add or delete email accounts through a browser.
>>>
>>> I found the following in Wiki:
>>>
>>> *What are the default user name and password for the administrator?*
>>> *
>>>
>>> There are none. Since Horde supports a broad variety of different
>>> authentication backends and you are free to choose any of them for your
>>> Horde installation, the selected backend decides which are valid login
>>> credentials. And we didn't add an authentication independent backdoor to
>>> Horde, for obvious reasons.
>>> Instead, you can turn any valid and authenticated user into an
>>> administrator by adding his user name to the administrator list in
>>> Horde's
>>> configuration. Make sure to use user names exactly like they are used
>>> inside Horde, i.e. with or without a domain name, and considering any
>>> user
>>> name hooks that you enabled.
>>> *
>>>
>>> * How can I get back to the setup screen?*
>>> **
>>> *You probably locked yourself out as an administrator because you
>>> properly
>>> configured an authentication backend for Horde, but forgot to add
>>> yourself
>>> as an administrator in the Horde configuration - see the paragraph above.
>>> If you don't want to start from scratch by copying conf.php.dist to
>>> conf.php again, you need to change the configuration file
>>> horde/config/conf.php manually. Edit the $conf['auth']['admins'] setting
>>> and add your username, e.g. $conf['auth']['admins'] = array('joe'); or
>>> $conf['auth']['admins'] = array(**'joe at example.com'* <'joe at example.com
>>> '>*);.
>>> You can add several administrators using a comma separated list.*
>>> **
>>> I found the file horde/config/conf.php and edited the admins line to add
>>> the one account we have access to.
>>>
>>> When that user account logs in, shouldn't it have administrative
>>> functions
>>> for horde/imp ?
>>>
>>> Thank You,
>>> *
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