configure --without-krb fails, looking for Kerberos

[Kendrick Vargas]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Ian McDonald wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lists" <hbeatty.lists at earthlink.net>
> To: "Cyrus-Info" <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 6:34 PM
> Subject: Re: configure --without-krb fails, looking for Kerberos
> 
> 
> > Ian,
> >
> > Try using "--with-auth=unix" instead of --without-des
> 
> Does this bit of the manual mean that if I do not want to store
> authorization information in /etc/passwd, because the mailbox users have
> nothing to do with the unix users, I need to use Kerberos?

Not at all. In fact in a typical install you usually have to work to get 
users authenticated against /etc/passwd. By default users come out of the 
/etc/sasldb database. You can compile modules to allow you to auth against 
mysql, krb, etc... 
			-peace

> 
> From install-compile.html:
> --with-auth=METHOD
> Specifies the authorization (group membership) module to use. Currently
> implemented authorization modules are:
>   unix
>   Unix /etc/passwd and /etc/group file
>   krb
>   Kerberos principals (requires Kerberos libraries). Optionally, specify
> where to find Kerberos v4 with "--with-krb=DIR" IMPORTANT: The Kerberos v4
> support requires the DES library. Some vendor distributions of Kerberos,
> including the one with Solaris, do not have this support and cannot be used.
>   krb_pts
>   Kerberos principals with AFS PTserver groups (requires Kerberos and AFS
> libraries). Optionally, specify where the AFS libraries are found with
> "--with-afs=PATH". Also requires krb support as above.
> Any method of authenticating with SASL can be used with any authorization
> module.
> 
> 

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