PREAUTH ?

[Ken Murchison]

Christiaan den Besten wrote:

> Hi All !
>  
> Has cyrus the ability (like uw-imapd) to use 'preauth' for users running 
> the daemon from the command line? I have been googling for pam solutions 
> to solve preauth, but these all look a bit unsafe at the very least :)
>  
> Running imapd from the command line as user 'foo' should then generate a 
> connection to the server without having to enter the password for 'foo'.

Cyrus doesn't support running imapd from the command line.  All process 
are spawned from the master process.

What type of application requires you to run imapd from the command 
line?  I *might* be able to add a command line switch which allows you 
to do this if its of general use.

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