Authentication (Total Confusion)

[Rob Siemborski]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Mike's List wrote:

> If I create a user 'test' via Unix with /etc/passwd & shadow and execute
> saslauthd -a shadow, I can login via Squirrelmail but receive an error
> because Squirrelmail can't find the mailbox.  If I create a user 'test'
> under cyradm I can't login via saslauthd -a shadow/pam/login/ldap/rimap/
> getpwent.  I'm not interested in saslauthd -a shadow, if I understood
> Cyrus IMAP, you can create user's e-mail without adding Unix accounts and
> uses different authentication scheme.

You need to create the account in your authentication backend (whatever
that is -- and it certainlhy doesn't have to be "shadow"), *and* you need
to create the mailbox (in this case, user.test).

-Rob

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