--with-auth only for group memberships?

[Igor Brezac]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:

> I've just reworked my Cyrus IMAP installation, and I'm beginning to get the 
> impression that --with-auth (which defaults to "unix") is only for group 
> memberships, and really has no other effect. It certainly doesn't seem to 
> affect SASL in any way, which is what actually handles authentication.

--auth-auth specifies an authorization (not authentication) mechanism. 
The unix module is mostly useful for group.

> Since I have "unix_group_enable: 0" in my imapd.conf file, does that mean 
> that it no longer matters what I specify for --with-auth? If so, the 
> documentation could use an update to make that abundantly clear, and ideally 
> the option could be renamed so people don't think it has anything to do with 
> actually authenticating users :-)

This is not correct.  unix_group_enable is used only when you compile the 
unix authorization mechanism, otherwise it has not effect.

-- 
Igor
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