NOT ABLE TO ADMINISTER MAIL BOXES WITH CYRUS-2.2.10

[ALD]

No I am sure that imapd is reading /var/imapd.conf file
Earler I had set virtual user as imap administrator who is not shell user 
My IMAP administative account is getting authenticated by sasl via 
sasl->pam->mysql
I have all user accounts also in mysql

This arrangement works perfectly fine till cyrus-2.1.16
Cyrus documentation only mentions as under

1. IMAP Administrative account should get authenticated by sasl
2. IMAP Administrative account should not have mailbox

So virual account meeting above conditions should be perfectly fine
But I think this has changed in cyrus 2.2 branch which is not documented

Actually securitywise also it is desirable to have not shell based 
virtual account as IMAP administrator

I  still feel that this is bug that virtual IMAP administrator  
authenticated by sasl is not allowed by cyrus to do mail administration

Regards ,

AJIT

Nikola Milutinovic wrote:

> ALD wrote:
>
>> No  My administative account was different than cyrus
>> I have changed it to cyrus and now everything is working fine
>>
>> Very Very Very strange that cyrus-2.2.10 forces cyrus only to be 
>> administrative account even though it is paramerarised in imapd.conf  
>> and documentation do not prescribe it
>
>
>
> I have "root" and "cyrus" listed as admins in my "/etc/imapd.conf" and 
> they both work as admins. Are you sure you're editting the right 
> config file? It could be that your IMAPd is reading some other file... 
> Worth checking out.
>
> Nix.
>

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