alternative login names

[Dan White]

On 02/03/13 20:29 +0100, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm running Cyrus imapd 2.3.x since quite some time for a group of users.
>My setup is LDAP based using saslauthd to pam_ldap currently and works just
>fine. But now I want to allow access to the mailboxes using the email
>address as an alternative to the system username.
>
>I have no real idea where to start how I could achieve that w/o changing
>the whole architecture of the system.
>Someone got a hint for me what to look at?

To allow users to login using a different username than the name of the
mailbox, use a canonicalization plugin, such as ldapdb.

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Dan White