admin authentication

[Wil Cooley]

On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 16:17 +0200, Marten Lehmann wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > You can use saslauthd/LDAP for your users and a local sasldb2 file for 
> > your admins. You don't need PAM at all.
> 
> unfortunately neither sasldb nor auxprop is compiled in at redhat 
> enterprise linux 4 and I wouldn't like to compile everything from scratch:
> 
> # saslauthd -v
> saslauthd 2.1.19
> authentication mechanisms: getpwent kerberos5 pam rimap shadow ldap

auxprop is part of the Cyrus IMAP itself, not saslauthd; it won't be
listed there.

> >     * sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop saslauthd
> >     * sasl_auxprop_plugin: sasldb
> 
> Could I just write
> 
> sasl_pwcheck_method: getpwent saslauthd
> 
> instead so /etc/passwd will be used whereas a linux-user with the same 
> name as the admin-user of cyrus would have to be created?

Try it?

Wil
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Wil Cooley <wcooley at nakedape.cc>
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