[sork] Using other than unix password for Horde / IMAP

[Eric Rostetter]

Quoting Tommi Sakari Uimonen <tuimonen@cc.hut.fi>:

> Hi. Is it possible to use a password different from unix password for IMAP?

Horde will let you login in a variety of ways (ldap, imap, krb5, ftp, etc).
But this has nothing really to do with IMP logins, unless you configure
Horde to use IMP for authentication.

IMP login support is dependent on your IMAP server and the OS it runs on, 
and has little to do with Horde/IMP.

> This way I could authenticate to Imp without making any changes to current
> (2.1 & 3.1) configuration.

If your OS and IMAP server authenticate off a system, then so will/can IMP.

> Or is it possible to set up Horde(/Imp) to use others, like smb password? 

Again, Horde supports a number of login protocols, though smb is not currently
one of them. 

IMP supports IMAP login since it is an IMAP client.

So what matters is what your IMAP server supports, not what IMP supports.

> I found some custom hack, which was using mysql to set up different
> passwords:
> 
> http://www.vkinetic.com/hordedev/

LDAP support is in Horde already I think.

> Our university has modified Imp and within unix you can change the mail
> password to be other than unix password. So it´s possible :)

So what exactly are you asking?  And there is no need to modify IMP, so that
is not relavent.  

For example, on linux, you can configure your system via pam to login via
smb.  Then if your IMAP client uses pam (which most linux ones do) your
IMAP would be authenticated via smb also.  Hence, IMP would authenticate
via smb.  But this requires no changes to IMP.  

> Tommi Uimonen
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