Login with an alias ID

[Dale J Chatham]

This is similar to what I want to do, I think.

I want to disconnect account names (LDAP, NIS, /etc/passwd, ...) from 
the process so I don't have to worry about some user changing their 
login ID to something idiotic and grant access to the machine. Yes, can 
do with the shell entry, but really want the separation.

On 02/28/2013 11:05 AM, Dan White wrote:
> On 02/28/13 11:33 +0530, Ram wrote:
>> Does cyrus implement login with an alias id
>> If the mailbox of a user is created with a long email id , it may be
>> helpful to allow login with a short "nickname"
>>
>> So the user has a choice of logging in with either his full email-id or
>> nickname to the same mailbox
> You can implement this using a sasl canonicalization plugin. Sasl version
> 2.1.25 (and greater) supports canonicalization with the ldapdb shared
> library.  There is a patch in bugzilla to implement support in the sql
> shared library.
>
> See: http://www.cyrussasl.org/docs/cyrus-sasl/2.1.25/options.php (search
> for 'canon').
>
> The best source of documentation is the cyrus-sasl mailing list archives.
>


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