Ban some users from accessing IMAP

[Michael Menge]

Hi,


Quoting Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs at math.uh.edu>:

>>>>>> "DM" == Dave McMurtrie <dave64 at andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>
> DM> The good news is that user_deny.db does exactly what you want.  It
> DM> allows you to deny any specific service to a valid user, even if
> DM> they can successfully authenticate to your Cyrus server.
>
> Oh, that's what that does.  I see one mention of something in the
> imapd.conf manpage but it's just about the format of the database
> involved.  (Says it defaults to "flat"; is that a good idea?  I don't
> anticipate having more than a handful of users banned in this way.)
>
> I will see if I can whip something up that pulls a group out of ldap and
> calls cyr_dbtool appropriately.  Run it from cron and I'll be done.
>

A few years ago I asked the question how to manage user_deny.db
Below you find the answer from Dan.


Quoting Dan White <dwhite at olp.net>:

> On 11/06/10 14:44 +0200, Michael Menge wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> is there a tool to add/remove a user to/from the user_deny.db?
>
> You can use cyr_dbtool:
>
> touch /var/lib/imap/user_deny.db
> chown cyrus:mail /var/lib/imap/user_deny.db
> su - cyrus
> cyr_dbtool /var/lib/imap/user_deny.db flat set dwhite "2     pop3    Can't
> use pop."
>
> For the format of the database value, see:
>
> http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/imapd/internal/database-formats.html
>
> When using the shell, you will need to escape your tabs. In bash, I
> typed:
>
> "2<ctrl-v><tab>pop3<ctrl-v><tab>Can't use pop."
>
> And then I get:
>
> telnet localhost 110
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to zek.olp.net.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK zek Cyrus POP3 v2.3.16 server ready
> <17564574347538583243.1276265278 at zek>
> user dwhite
> +OK Name is a valid mailbox
> -ERR [SYS/TEMP] Can't use pop.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> -- 
> Dan White
>




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