login uid doesn't match mailbox name

[Stephen Ingram]

Dan-

Thanks. I'm already setting up the user canonicalization plugin using
2.1.24rc1. When I saw the krb.equiv today, I thought maybe I had found
an easier solution.

Steve

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Dan White <dwhite at olp.net> wrote:
> On 03/03/11 15:28 -0800, Stephen Ingram wrote:
>>
>> Is it possible to login to cyrus-imap with a uid that doesn't match
>> the mailbox name? I'm trying to use the virtual domains setup where
>> mailbox names would be full email addresses, however, some of the
>> users need to use kerberos for login so they would have uid of say
>> user at REALM.COM where realm.com would not necessarily match their email
>> domain. I see that there is /etc/krb.equiv file that can be used to
>> equate kerberos uid to local unix user. Would this also work for
>> mailbox name?
>
> I don't know. A quick look through the source would lead me to believe the
> /etc/krb.equiv file doesn't work with kerberos5/gssapi, but was written for
> kerberos_v4.
>
> Another way to accomplish username mapping is with a libsasl user
> canonicalization plugin, which would allow you to arbitrarily match
> usernames to mailboxes. There are two such plugins: ldapdb (in 2.1.24rc1)
> and sql (cyrus bugzilla bug 3219).
>
> --
> Dan White
>