[sork] vacation and password configuration

[Eric Rostetter]

Quoting li at elaboratio.com:

> I translated the german error message that I got by myself.

Ah, that explains it ;)

> > > 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 ?

That depends on what your goal is.

What I do is tell Horde to use IMP for logins, and have everyone login
to Horde (via IMP).  Then everything is consistent.  But you may not
want everyone logging into Horde for some reason?  Or have a reason
to have separate Horde and IMP logins?  

> thank you.
> jae

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Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin
 
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