We keep all our userid/passwords in a Mysql database and use PAM/pam_mysql
to have Cyrus 1.6.24 authenticate against the MySql database.
As for password changing we use IMP/Horde so I modified a script provided
with IMP to allow users to change their passwords when they are logged into
IMP.
Brian Capouch wrote:
> I have my 2.0.9 sendmail 8.11.1 test server up and running, and happily
> serving me my mail so far for about a week without problems.
>
> My cohorts have cold feet about moving our user database over there,
> though, because of the additional complexity of managing the SASL
> username/password pairs as "yet another place to have to keep that stuff
> in synch."
>
> We are running 1.6.24 currently for the bulk of our users, and
> authenticating out of the system /etc/passwd file.
>
> If I may ask those who have blazed the ground ahead of me, what would
> you recommend as a technology for us to manage ~1000 IMAP users? We
> currently allow users to change their passwords at their pleasure--is
> this something you other administrators out there do? Etc. etc.
>
> I want to adopt something that's scalable and manageable. There is zero
> enthusiasm for adding a sasldb management system onto the top of the
> system we use already, which consists of Unix passwords and the infernal
> mess of a password system that we use with Samba for our SMB users.
>
> Thanks.
>
> B.
