Please, what are the groups? Re: mech=login, auth=sasldb, groups=???

[Ian McDonald]

Please, what are the groups, if not using Unix auth?

Thanks,

Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Matter" <simon.matter at ch.sauter-bc.com>
To: "Ian McDonald" <ian at londontown.com>
Cc: <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 7:21 AM
Subject: Re: mech=login, auth=sasldb, groups=???


> Ian McDonald schrieb:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > If I store my passwords (and hence list of users) in sasldb2, what
stores my
> > list of group names, and which users are in each group?
>
> Good question. I had the same question but with LDAP. I'm doing
> Cyrus-IMAPd -> saslauthd -> PAM -> LDAP. Now, IIRC one can grant
> permissions based on groups through ACLs, what are the group used in
> this situation. Well, in my case I could have been using posix groups in
> the LDAP tree but I'm curious whether this would work?
>
> Simon
>
> >
> > My imapd.conf file is:
> >
> > configdirectory: /var/imap
> > partition-default: /var/spool/imap
> > admins: cyrus root
> > allowanonymouslogin: no
> > defaultacl: anyone lrs
> > autocreatequota: -1
> > sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop
> > sasl_auxprop_plugin: login sasldb
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ian