cyrus super user -- able to login in as any user with a superuser password

[Michael Menge]

Hi,

Quoting Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch>:

>> hi all,
>>
>> i have a cyrus instance with an ldap backend -- works beautifully ...
>>
>> i was wondering if there is a way to be able to login as any user with a
>> `superuser` password without messing with the users `real` password.
>>
>> i am assuming this would have to involve some saslauthd magic ...
>
> Not really saslauthd magic, just check the "proxyservers" option in
> imapd.conf.
>
> Regards,
> Simon
>

To uses SASL proxy Authentication you need to use a mech that
supports porxy auth. PLAIN does support it, LOGIN does not.


Regards.

    Michael


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