mailboxname and cyrus 2.1.13

[Jan Brand (Postmaster)]

thank you verry much, i changed the patch for cyrus 2.1.13. i supplied the
patch an it works great. Now i can login as user 24025.

best regards

Jan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Murchison" <ken at oceana.com>
To: "Jan Brand (Postmaster)" <cyrus-pmd0052 at promind.de>
Cc: <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: mailboxname an cyrus 2.1.13


> Jan Brand (Postmaster) wrote:
> > hi all,
> >
> > first of all, sorry for my bad english. i hope you can understand what i
> > mean.
> > i use cyrus since one year. all works fine. now i have to migrate 500
> > mailboxes. the usernames are still in use and should not be changed. bat
the
> > names are the problem. all of them are like 24025. i can setup the
mailbox,
> > i can deliver the mails. but i cant set any acl for a mailbox.
> > for example:
> > cyradm localhost --> OK
> > cm user.24025 --> OK
> > sam user.24025 lrswipdca --> usage: setaclmailbox mailbox id rights [id
> > rights ...]
> >
> > a other problem is that no user with the name 24025 can do a login
> > (badlogin: cyrus.mailserver.tld[abc.abc.abc.abc] plaintext 24025 invalid
> > user)
> >
> > what's to do. please dont answer "change the username".
>
> Unfortunately, that is the answer.  Cyrus doesn't support all-numeric
> userids.  You could try applying the patch attached to bug #2447.
>
> https://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/show_bug.cgi?id=2447
>
> -- 
> Kenneth Murchison     Oceana Matrix Ltd.
> Software Engineer     21 Princeton Place
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