Re: [courier-users] Planned changes to Courier's authentication library.

2004-09-22 Thread Johannes Erdfelt
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004, Sam Varshavchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can only see one possible drawback. Only the daemonized configuration will now be possible. The non-daemonized version of the authentication library will be removed. It is clear that the daemonized configuration is proven to be

RE: [courier-users] Planned changes to Courier's authentication library.

2004-09-21 Thread Mitch \(WebCob\)
I'm planning to make the following structural changes. This is the only chance for someone to talk me out of it. Not wanting to miss my chance ;-) Not sure if this is the appropriate time to consider a few issues or not - and maybe they have been addressed elsewhere while I wasn't looking

Re: [courier-users] Planned changes to Courier's authentication library.

2004-09-21 Thread MikeM
On 9/20/2004 at 9:29 PM Sam Varshavchik wrote: |... |3. Installs: | A) Various authdaemond builds, and the authdaemond startup script | B) Configuration files | C) Test binaries | D) A small devel library that contains the authdaemon client code. | Courier,

Re: [courier-users] Planned changes to Courier's authentication library.

2004-09-21 Thread Randy Smith
Sam Varshavchik wrote: [snip] The migration script will look for any existing configuration files in any known directory used by older versions of Courier and SqWebMail. Presently I know of the following directories that could possibly hold old configuration files, on known platforms:

Re: [courier-users] Planned changes to Courier's authentication library.

2004-09-21 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Sam Varshavchik wrote: [...] Overview of the planned courier-authlib package: 1. Uses the existing configure options. 2. Uses standard FHS install paths. 3. Installs: A) Various authdaemond builds, and the authdaemond startup script B) Configuration files C) Test

Re: [courier-users] Planned changes to Courier's authentication library.

2004-09-21 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Alessandro Vesely writes: I think authtest might also be good as a generic configuration tool as it delivers name, home directory, uid and gid of a given user. (Suppose a configure script takes an option like [EMAIL PROTECTED] for installing some data and scripts into a user directory; e.g. a mail

[courier-users] Planned changes to Courier's authentication library.

2004-09-20 Thread Sam Varshavchik
I'm planning to make the following structural changes. This is the only chance for someone to talk me out of it. Right now, the authentication library, the authlib subdirectory, is present in the courier, courier-imap, and sqwebmail source tarballs. It gets separately compiled by all three

Re: [Courier-Users] Planned Changes to Courier's Authentication Library.

2004-09-20 Thread Jim Horner
D) A small devel library that contains the authdaemon client code. Courier, Courier-IMAP, and SqWebMail will link against this lib. Is there any reason why maildrop could not use this lib? I have not taken the time to look so slap me if you want. I just know that the auth lib