creating mailboxes

[Ken Murchison]

Ian Beyer wrote:

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> Ken Murchison wrote:
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> | Ian Beyer wrote:
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> |> When running cyradm as user foo (listed as admin), and creating
> |> mailboxes for user.foo, user.bar, and user.baz, I end up with
> |> directories matching those names in foo's home directory. This doesn't
> |> strike me as normal.
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> |> What am I doing wrong?
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> |  From the installation docs: "everyday users should not be
> | administrators".  Do not create an INBOX for an admin (user.foo).
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> Since i'm using shadow as my SASL auth mechanism, how do I do this
> without creating a user?

Having a user/password defined is different from creating an INBOX for 
that user.  You can put 'foo' and foo's password in /etc/shadow, just 
don't create 'user.foo' via cyradm if you define 'foo' as an admin in 
imapd.conf.


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