Quenten Griffith said:
I am trying to setup a IMAP server using Cyrus and Debian/Testing and it
appears the version of cyrus is 1.5 that is currently in testing and
unstable and stable. Which I think does not support SASL. I belive I
have to have at least 1.6.4 for that. Is there a reason why the version
we have in Debian is four years old?
probably because nobody stepped up to the plate to package the newer
version. I feel your pain too having been using cyrus for about 2 years
now. the upside at least is that when dist upgrading from potato to
woody nothing in cyrus changed so there was no potential problems:)
I know there was a problem with
1.6.4 that required you to open up the /etc/passwd file to be world
readable, I am assuming this is why it has not made it to Debian.
while I haven't used newer versions of cyrus the /etc/passwd should
already be world readable. many programs access it to find your uid/gid,
it would be difficult to run the system without your userid having read
access to it. Maybe you meant /etc/shadow ?? I don't know, but /etc/passwd
has been default to world readable on every linux and unix system I've
ever used.
So
are my only options at this point to self compile or use the very old
version? I see unstable has Cyrus2 but that requires a whole system
upgrade from testing to unstable, I am running several other servers I
don't which to break so I don't want to upgrade to unstable as of yet.
depends on your needs I guess, i for one do not need SASL, and cyrus
1.5 works good, its a very prooven package, the only downside is the
pam version of pwcheck has a pretty bad memory leak, so if your using
PAM be aware (the default is to not use pam). I would like to use cyrus
2.x just to see what it's like, but will wait till later..
nate