Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 04:46:17 -0600 (MDT) From: FreeBSD <freebsd@XtremeDev.com> To: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Cyrus-IMAPd and postfix Message-ID: <20010413044300.G66200-100000@Amber.XtremeDev.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0104102156300.8329-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
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On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Jan Grant wrote: > 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. I have Cyrus and pwcheck setup now. But so far I have been unable to get pwcheck to check sasldb and then system shadowed passwords. Right now I am using the fallback_transport option in postfix to send to Cyrus (checking against sasldb) if the user doesn't exist in /etc/passwd. Which works well, but ideally I'd like it to be reversed. Can postfix do this? Or is it entirely left up to Cyrus-imapd? So far I haven't been able to get Cyrus to check both system passwd as well as sasldb. Thanks in advance, and I really do appreciate the help. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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