From: "Tim Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I am adding Web-based e-mail to an existing portal-like site, using
> IMP and Cyrus imapd. The site is built pretty much exclusively with
> PHP and MySQL.
>
> We already have all the userid's and passwords for the
> portal site in MySQL and would like to let users log into
> their IMP/Webmail accounts with the same password.
>
> I believe Cyrus/SASL authentication using PAM may be one way of doing
this,
> but would hope this is a wheel someone else has already invented.
>
You can also use the Cyrus-SASL LDAP+MySQL auth patch
(http://www.surf.org.uk/), which creates 2 new pwcheck methods (ldap, and
mysql). This patch doesn't modify the pwcheck daemon, instead it modifies
lib/checkpw.c to add theses new pwcheck methods.
Scot
