[KLUG Members] help with cyrus imap on debian testing

Adam Tauno Williams adam at morrison-ind.com
Thu Jun 17 15:13:20 EDT 2004


> > This will authenticate your users against your POSIX accounts. You lose 
> > the extra SASL capabilities, but you get it running very quickly.
> If I understood the documentation correctly, they recommend that you
> don't use sasldb to store your accounts since the passwords are stored
> as plain text (and if someone steals that file ...).
> But you do seem to lose stuff like CRAM-MD5 unless you use sasldb ...
> And I haven't found a command a user can run (or I can run from a CGI)
> to let users change their own password in sasldb.  That's the major
> drawback for me.

Use of sasldb is a real pain,  better to use LDAP or GSSAPI.


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