Listing common user's ACLs from the admin's point of view (perl or PHP)

[Paolo Negri]

Maybe you can take a look on this link.

http://oregonstate.edu/~morgan/cyrus/public/

Bye

Paolo

LaurentG wrote:
> 
> 
> Paul Dekkers a écrit :
> 
>> Hello Laurent,
>>
>> LaurentG wrote:
>>
>>> In order to manage common users status changes (indicated by the 
>>> update of the LDAP directory) I'd need to enumerate all the granted 
>>> ACLs my common user owns.
>>>
>>> As an admin, I don't have his password, so can't connect as his 
>>> identity but need to list all ACLs he owns (except his own mailbox 
>>> ones). One solution, not the best (I'd rather), is to parse the 
>>> entire spool with a 'listaclmailbox' and delete any matching ACL, 
>>> except on his own mailbox.
>>>
>>> But  searching more efficient way, such as the imap 
>>> 'getmailboxes'under the common user's identity.
>>>
>>> The admins tools are being  writen  in perl an PHP, so the solution 
>>> can be in either language.
>>>
>>> Thanks for help, or ideas.
>>
>>
>>
>> I have no idea to implement this at the moment, but reading this made 
>> me interested in this as well.
>> Have you found anything that does this job?
>>
>> (Can't you just parse the mailboxes file, since all ACLs are in there, 
>> and check the diffs or something? With a proper regex/grep you can 
>> leave out the user's own inbox, and grep for his rights on other 
>> folders. So maybe I have an idea after all ;-))
>>
>> Paul
>>
> Hi Paul,
> That's just what I'm about to write, but I'd rather a more efficient way 
> than parsing the entire folders tree for each user that moves.
> 
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