On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 03:32:14PM +0000, Ross Burton wrote: > > Cyrus is also supposed to be very fast, but as it doesn't use the unix > password database it means managing a seperate user database. Of > course, for many people that is exactly what is required... > It's not necessarily the case that Cyrus doesn't use the standard /etc/passwd authentication data. At least, that's the case in Cyrus IMAP 2.x. I think Debian's still on 1.something. 2.x can use PAM, so it can pull auth info from anywhere, really. It can use a daemon called pwcheck to read /etc/shadow directly (necessary because it normally runs as non-root and can't access /etc/shadow). Cyrus is enormous, though, and is probably not a good idea to use unless you really run a big site. I'm having to configure it right now for an IMAP server that's used by something like 4 people. It's totally overkill. And it completely takes over the mail subsystem on the system, so you can't access your mail at all without going through IMAP. That's a bit annoying in my case. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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