[sync] Sync with Horde, IMP authentication and realms

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck at horde.org
Sun Jun 1 21:31:39 UTC 2008


Quoting Frederik <horde at traintraveltogether.de>:

> I use IMP 4.2 to authenticate with Horde 3.2 and use a realm in the
> servers.conf. Authentication against my IMAP-Server is done without
> the realm, as it should, but the username that Horde sees and uses ist
> user at realm.com. This value is also used in the SQL-Backends for all
> Horde applications, preferences etc. and thus also with Turba.
>
> When the sync goes through I don't see the new names added to Turba
> because in the database the 'object_owner' is just 'user' and not
> 'user at realm.com'.
>
> So I wonder why after authentication the realm is not used with the
> syncml part of Horde as all other applications seem to use it?
> If this is still work in progress, is there any possibility to
> hard-code the realm somewhere in the code so that it will be added to
> all usernames? At the moment, only users from one specific realm will
> use SyncML, thus this would at least provide for a temporary solution.
>
> My IMAP-Server doesn't work when I use the username with the added
> realm, so I don't see any other possibility for me...

Is this the same issue as http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/6749 ?

-chuck


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