On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > It has functionality that can not be implemented without adding to > how UNIX does things. Basically, it needs to be able to hook the > account constructor/destructor.
It's quite simple to integrate Cyrus IMAP with the local system. Cyrus will by default use the system password database for its authentication, all that is left is to write up a script to your liking to manage the IMAP folders (I wrote one in PERL using the IMAP::Admin and Mail::IMAPClient modules, but please don't ask me for them, I'm not that proud of them :-). You can hook that script in to whatever you're using to create the system user accounts. In the near future, however, I plan to move the authentication database into LDAP and have Cyrus use that so that I can get rid of all of the local system accounts which are there for nothing other than authentication (the shells are just /sbin/nologin). All in all, I love the Cyrus design, and it hasn't given me a bit of trouble in over 6 years. It makes doing a secure "black-box" mail server very easy. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon(at)wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon(at)inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet - Available for IA32 (Intel x86) and Alpha architectures - IA64, PowerPC, UltraSPARC, and ARM architectures under development - http://www.freebsd.org No trees were harmed in the composition of this message, although some electrons were mildly inconvenienced. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
