I hope it will not. I am running cyrus 2.0.9 on FreeBSD with PAM and mysql
db very succesfully at this point - no problems at all.
pwcheck on the other hand is only capable to ise shadow file according to
its README.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lawrence Greenfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Todd Nemanich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: Cyrus-imapd 2.0.9 all users accept the cyrus password &
noothers!
> Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 14:45:22 -0500
> From: Todd Nemanich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Organization: Bay Mountain, Inc.
>
> "David L. Parsley" wrote:
> >
> > Me too! I thought maybe I'd done something dumb, and haven't gone
back
> > to try this again. This happened to me with 2.0.7. Using PAM, I
could
> > only log in supplying the password for cyrus. I switched to sasldb
and
> > it worked fine.
> >
> > Still, I wonder if this is a bug or just a common misconfiguration...
> >
>
> I'm not exactly sure if this is the reason, but PAM does not allow any
> user except root to check another user's password. Hence you would only
> be able to check against uid:Cyrus through PAM. Perhaps using the
> pwcheck daemon can solve this problem.
>
> This is exactly the problem. A future version of Cyrus SASL will
> probably discontinue the PAM password method is favor of forcing
> people to use pwcheck.
>
> Larry
>
>
>
