Admin user as a proxy user

[Rob Siemborski]

On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Earl Shannon wrote:

> Basically what I would like is for the admin user to have more
> control over accounts, ie, act as if they were the user.
> Can this be done with the current implementation of
> cyrus? If so, how? The IMAP protocol appears to support actions
> for the authenticated user, which means one must have the
> password of the user to act in their stead. That is not possible
> in may cases, including ours here. I see an option available
> in the imapd conf file that addresses a proxy user, but how can
> one do it?

Authenticating as an admin and then authorizing as the user with a variety
of SASL mechanisms will allow this (e.g. most of them, excep LOGIN and
CRAM-MD5).

-Rob

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