Invalid username when creating mailboxes

[Steve Gibson]

Hello again,

I have been able to resolve this. All that was required was adding a 
separator config to Winbind to change the \ separator.

Cheers
Steve

Steve Gibson wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm in the process of moving our email system over to a 
> Cyrus/OpenGroupware based system, however I'm having trouble with 
> usernames.
>
> Usual stats...
> CentOS 4.5 - kernel 2.6.9-55.0.2.EL
> cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-8.1.RHEL4
> cyrus-sasl-2.1.19-5.EL4
>
> We currently authenticate via PAM/Winbind. Thus all usernames take the 
> form DOMAIN\username. This hasn't been a problem for authentication. 
> We have imapd talking to saslauthd, which is speaking PAM, which talks 
> Winbind. No problem, users with a domain\username login authenticate 
> without a problem.
>
> Our problem arises when we try to create an INBOX for one of these 
> users. Set up for autocreate, we get the following log entry...
>
> Oct 10 18:07:14 mail imap[11386]: login: localhost.insumo.net.au 
> [127.0.0.1] insumo\sgibson plaintext User logged in
> Oct 10 18:07:14 mail imap[11386]: autocreateinbox: User 
> insumo\sgibson, INBOX failed. Invalid mailbox name
>
> And we get the same problems when trying to create using cyradm. Using 
> a single slash, we get an INBOX for insumosgibson, and using a double 
> slash, we get an invalid mailbox name.
>
> So, has anyone experieced this, and is there a solution? Or, is there 
> any standard way to map the \ to a character that is valid in a 
> mailbox name? Or is my only resort patching the source?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Steve
>

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