On Tuesday 19 June 2007 06:57:13 Andreas Winkelmann wrote: > On Sunday 17 June 2007 19:16, Anders Johansson wrote: > > > Cyrus-Imapd does not use (my)sql. For the used Databases you can choose > > > ie. Berkeley-DB or skiplist, but not sql. > > > > What's wrong with LDAP? It is a database which is highly optimised for > > reading, it seems to be best for authentication > > > > It can also be used through PAM. > > Authentification is not handled from Cyrus-Imapd.
I don't believe I said it was > This is the job of > Cyrus-SASL. There is a ldap-Plugin for Cyrus-SASL available. And you can > use ldap with saslauthd or saslauthd and pam. Sure, this is the default way the mail server setup is handled in SLES, it integrates nicely with the rest of the system (most things are prepared for LDAP authentication). I really see no need for involving databases which weren't designed for authentication. The only reason I can see is if there already is a user database available, but even then I would strongly advocate migrating it to LDAP -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
