hi i recently noticed that Cyrus IMAP/POP3 does not seem to support NIS..is there something special required by the program to support it? i had thought the program just asked the system somehow "is this password valid" and the system told it yes or no..but it looks as if cyrus does the authentication directly? i can login fine through ssh, and replaced cyrus pop3 with qpopper just for a test and it worked there too. all without entries in /etc/shadow and just 1 entry in /etc/passwd which tells nis to use /bin/bash as my shell.
i had been testing for a few days with NIS but i guess i didn't realize i had an entry for my account in /etc/shadow. then i started playing with qpoppassd today and thats when i noticed i could no longer login to cyrus. the mail.log says the "user account doesn't exist". since i can login to qpopper and ssh i just think it's not quering the NIS server. running debian 2.2r2 with cyrus: ii cyrus-admin 1.5.19-2 Cyrus mail system (administration tool) ii cyrus-common 1.5.19-2 Cyrus mail system (common files) ii cyrus-imapd 1.5.19-2 Cyrus mail system (IMAP support) ii cyrus-pop3d 1.5.19-2 Cyrus mail system (POP3 support) NIS would of been nice as we use it on a lot of other machines (yes i know it's not secure, but NIS+ is not an option as many of the unix platforms we develop on are too old to support it out of the box, and we need to develop on out-of-the-box systems) however the option of not using nis and also using poppassd is nice too. so before i go ahead and just disable nis on this machine i wanted to know if anyone else knew wether or not cyrus supported NIS. thanks!@ nate
