[imp] Fwd: Re: Webmail Administration>

[Michael J Rubinsky]

Yes, if the username  is listed in the admins array then the  
administration section will be available, but like I said this doesn't  
mean you will be able to manage email accounts.

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Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org> wrote:

Quoting Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>>
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [imp] Webmail Administration>
> From: David Goldfield <dgoldfield at gmail.com>
> To: mrubinsk at horde.org
> CC:
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> Â 
>
> 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.
>
> Â 
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> When that user logs in, should the administrative functions be displayed?
>
> Â 
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> 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?
>
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>
> Thank You
>
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>
>
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> 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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> David Goldfield <dgoldfield at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Quoting David Goldfield <dgoldfield at gmail.com>
>
> Hi Michael,
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> Â 
>
> 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?
>
> Â 
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> Or should we locate MD5 or SSHA in mysql or IMAP for the  
> administrator account and delete it?
>
> Â 
>
> 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. Â 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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