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Date:      Tue, 10 Apr 2001 21:56:53 +0100 (BST)
From:      Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        FreeBSD <freebsd@XtremeDev.com>
Cc:        questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Cyrus-IMAPd and postfix
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.31.0104102156300.8329-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20010410142443.S891-100000@Amber.XtremeDev.com>

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On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, FreeBSD wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Jan Grant wrote:
>
> > In no particular order: you can have users that only exist in Cyrus.
> > These need sasldb password entries. You also can have users that exist
> > in /etc/passwd, etc. These can also have entries in sasldb, _or_ they
> > can authenticate against the system passwrod database.
> >
> > That's the job of pwcheck: you (imapd, actually) give it a username and
> > password, and it checks it against the system database.
> >
> > You _can_ (if I recall correctly) configure cyrus to create user
> > mailboxes "on the fly". Otherwise, before you can deliver mail to a user
> > you'll need to make them a mailbox. Using cyradm to do something like:
> >
> > 	cm user.foobar
> >
> > is sufficient if "foobar" is a system user.
>
> Ah. Is it possible to configure pwcheck to act in a fall back manner?
> Meaning it checks sasldb for that user first, then system shadowed
> passwords? Thanks for the help.

If you configure sasldb and pwcheck, this ought to be the default
behaviour.

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