imap impersonate

[Michael Menge]

Quoting Gabriele Bulfon via Info-cyrus <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>:

> Hi,
> is there any mechanism with Cyrus imap to impersonate another user?
> I've seen other imap servers scenarios where one may use plain  
> authentication and sending user as mailboxuser plus a separator plus  
> adminuser and use only adminpassword, to get access to the  
> mailboxuser as is (dovecot, exchange).
> Anything like this in Cyrus?
> Gabriele

Cyrus can use the PLAIN mech to allow admin access as the user.
You need to add plain to sasl_mech_list in imapd.conf
And the "admin" account has to be listed in admins or proxyservers
in imapd.conf

Regards,

    Michael


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