I wrote something about this to the list earlier.  See my message in the 
archive:

http://asg.web.cmu.edu/archive/message.php?mailbox=archive.info-cyrus&msg=1
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Michael

--On Sunday, January 27, 2002 19:56:08 -0600 Adam Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:

> Here's my situation:
>
> I want to use Cyrus imapd to handle mail in AFS space; I'm using OpenAFS
> 1.2.2, which is roughly equivalent to Transarc 3.6.
>
> I'd like to have Cyrus use the pts server for its ACLs, since I already
> have working ACLS and it makes my life a lot easier.  I also have no
> reason to keep my users in /etc/passwd, since I'll be spreading mail
> across a bunch of machines, so I really want to authenticate against
> Kerberos, not /etc/passwd.  The principals all look like v4 principals
> (because they're intended for use with AFS), but they really do live in
> K5 space:
>
> I'm not really running Kerberos IV; instead I'm using MIT krb5 1.2.2,
> and using the MIT krb524d to convert tickets.  All that works fine.
>
> I was able to convince SASL-2.1.0 to build against the KerberosIV
> libraries, but not saslauthd, largely (I think) because the des.h in K4
> gets along extremely poorly with the des.h in OpenSSL.
>
> Once I turn to imapd itself, I can more or less bully things into
> compiling, except for ipop3d, which gets upset over the krb.h in
> /usr/local/include/kerberosIV.
>
> My question is: is there anyone else out there using Cyrus imapd in
> conjunction with user homes and folders in AFS-space, and if so, is
> there anybody doing with with a krb5 implementation, rather than v4,
> under the covers?  Am I even on the right track with what I'm trying to
> do?
>
> Adam
>
>


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