[ Re: why does salspasswd2 always append a realm?]

[Jo Rhett]

Uroš Gruber wrote:
>>> So I really need to login without a realm.
>>
>> Wrong.  You need a login where the realm matches the hostname of the 
>> machine, which will solve the problem for you.  If you check the sasl 
>> debug, you'll see that "no realm" becomes the result of 
>> gethostbyname() during the sasl query.

> I was trying to figure this out a while ago. Thanks for enlightening me
> :). Is this possible to be added in documentation.

Docs say clearly how an empty realm is processed.  It's a SASL thing, 
not an IMAP thing.

> If I can add here because it's more about virtual users. I still don't
> understand is how can I create global admin user. I think in previous
> versions of cyrus this works but in latest I can only see users from
> primary domain or server hostname.

I'm running latest, and it works just fine.  Hasn't changed since Ken 
first published his patch for this.

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Jo Rhett
Network/Software Engineer
Net Consonance