Cyrus authentication mecs

[Rob Siemborski]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Tom Bryntesen wrote:

> What kind of authentication mechanisms do you recommend when
> using Cyrus on a system with about 10.000 users. It may well be
> about 1.000 concurrent connections, I guess. (RedHat Enterprise
> AS server on two cluster-servers linked to a SAN-disk system
> with the mail-/spool-store are planned for the task.)
>
> It's for a corporate environment with one domain only.

Kerberos (GSSAPI)!

Of course, You probably want to use clients that do not support Kerberos, 
so that means plaintext (over TLS).

> Is it possible to use the "traditional" web-cyradm approach on such a 
> system with mySQL or is LDAP the best solution ??

What backend store you use probably depends more on what you are currently 
familiar with and currently have deployed than anything else.

-Rob

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