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

[mayak]

On 06/18/2014 11:24 AM, Michael Menge wrote:
> 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.
hi all,

thanks! the proxyservers option is working great -- with one login, i am able to use imapfilter to groom all account/folders of old messages ...

cheers

m