[sork] vacation and password configuration

[li at elaboratio.com]

Zitiere Eric Rostetter <eric.rostetter at physics.utexas.edu>:

> Quoting li at elaboratio.com:
> 
> > No, I didn't.
> > 
> > 1.)
> > I get vacation from the vacation directory
> (ftp://ftp.horde.org/pub/vacation/
> > and downloaded the vacation-latest.tar.gz)
> > 
> > So I have to use an ("may be") unstable vacation version, because the
> latest
> > stable version of vacation was released before horde 3,right?
> 
> Correct.  A H3 compatible version of vacation has not yet been
> released.
> 
> > The next error now is, that I login to imp as normal user and my
> passwd, I
> > create a vacation notice, but vacation says:
> > "You can not set a vacation notice as root."
> 
> That message isn't in the current HEAD code, so you must be using an
> older version?


Downloaded snaps/vacation-HEAD-2005-01-29.
I translated the german error message that I got by myself.
In vacataion/main.php, line 45 : "You can't change the vacation notice for %s.")



> > Sure, I set this option in the configuration, because root will not
> send
> > emails
> > to anybody. But I used Imp as normal user. I tested this with another
> normal
> > user account with the same result. Whats wrong?
> 
> Sork does not have its own login like IMP (or gollem, etc) do.  So it
> uses the Horde login credentials.  See below.
> 
> > While testing with normal user accounts occured the same error as
> vacation
> > ("You
> > cannot change the password for root.")
> 
> Same as above, see below.
>  
> > I guess it has something to do with the fact that I first go to
> horde/login
> > as
> > root and then I choose "webmail" from the horde menubar. (It appears
> the imp
> > loginscreen and I login as normal user.)
> > But what is a solution?
> 
> If you login to Horde as root, then Horde applications that don't
> require
> a login will think you are root.  So in your case, passwd and vacation
> will see you as root (not as what you logged into IMP with).  And you
> disabled passwd/vacation for root, so hence the error you get.



Thank you for your explanation, but what is the right solution?
Enable passwords for horde? Where ?

thank you.
jae
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