webmail+kerberos+cyrus imapd

ph rhole oper slitbit at fastmail.fm
Sat Apr 15 15:24:36 EDT 2006


On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:21:02 -0400, "Jeffrey T Eaton" <jeaton at cmu.edu>
said:
> > My curus-imapd authenticates using gssapi kerberos5.
> > Is there a webmail system that authenticates users to the cyrus-imapd
> > using kerberos5?
> > Maybe through pubcookie?
> > I cannot find any directions..
> 
> At CMU, we are using a slightly modiffied version of SquirrelMail
> which uses pubcookie with kerberos ticket passing for authentication.
> On the webmail server, instead of letting PHP make the connection to
> Cyrus, we instead fork a copy of imtest (which authenticates using the
> passed tickets).  Then SquirrelMail sends its IMAP commands over
> the connection opened by imtest.
> 
> I can publish the patches we made to the Cyrus wiki shortly.
> 
> -jeaton
> 
> -- 
> Jeffrey T. Eaton                    esp                     
> jeaton at cmu.edu
> Email Systems Team Leader                        Carnegie-Mellon
> University
> 
> 
I think a lot of people are already using kerberized imap with webmail,
is everybody making their own webmail interface?
isnt there a common solution?

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