[Fwd: Re: [Web-cyradm] Cyrus 2.2.3 virt domains + Web-cyradm 0.5.4 patch]

[Bob Tito]

Sorry... should have gone to the list ;-(

Bob

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Web-cyradm] Cyrus 2.2.3 virt domains + Web-cyradm 0.5.4 patch
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 22:49:20 +0200
From: Bob Tito <lists at magicfingers.org>
To: Luc de Louw <luc at delouw.ch>
References: <1081365406.16310.313.camel at llama-012> 
<40745EDE.9060903 at delouw.ch>

Luc de Louw wrote:
> Michael Hsu wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,  I recently started using web-cyradm but noticed it didn't
>> really support Cyrus 2.2.x's fully qualified user names of
>> username at domainname.com instead of username.domainname.com so I made a
>> very simple patch for it  which can be found here:
>> http://www.shaolinux.org/web-cyradm-0.5.4.diff
> 
> 
> I'll check that over the weekend, as usual time is rare :-(
> 
>>
>> There are some things to note when using this however.
>> 1) it does not work with pam_mysql due to the fact that sasl does not
>> pass the @domainname.com to pam.  Therefore you must use the auxprop
>> mysql plugin and use plaintext passwords in your mysql database. Some
>> people look down on this, and I do too but I really wanted to get the
>> fully qualified user names and didn't want to write a patch for sasl. 
> 
> 
> Hopefully there will be a patch available soon...
> 
>>
>> Just protect your DB ;)
>> 2) In the conf.php set $CRYPT= "plain 0";
> 
> 
> That is VERY bad! Is there no other way?
> 
>> 3) the cyrus administrator login (not the web-cyradm frontend login)
>> must also have a fqun.  ie. cyrus at localdomain.com.
>> 4) This does not work with unixhierarchysep.  It can be easily added
>> however.  If someone really wants it I'll consider adding it.
>> 5) Search features haven't been fully patched, I have too much to work
>> on right now to do that, sorry :(
>>
>> I have only tested this with Cyrus 2.2.3, web-cyradm 0.5.4, and sendmail
>> 8.12.11 on Debian unstable.  It will work with postfix as I'm sure 99%
>> of you use that, I didn't make any sendmail specific changes.  So here
>> it is, if you want this feature use it, if not dont, if you think my
>> patching skills suck dont use my patch, otherwise enjoy.  If you find
>> any bugs with it please let me know so I can patch my own setup :)
> 
> 
> As I notes obove, I'll check the patch. Hopefully you added a new config 
> variable in conf.php...
> 
> The only bad thing about this is the plain text password storage.

And that is not a problem ;-)

I recently canged from pam to auxprop using crypted passwords in the
database using the patch here...
http://frost.ath.cx/software/cyrus-sasl-patches/
this also works for sasl-2.1.18

If imapd.conf info is needed, i'll post it.

Regards, Bob


> 
> rgds and thanks
> 
> Luc
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Bob Tito
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Disclaimer:
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