On May 18, 2005, at 04:17 PM, Jules Agee wrote:
websrvr wrote:
I'm very new to the list so I have no idea what has been previously
discussed, I did try to examine the list archives but was unsuccessful
in finding anything that was helpful.
Does anyone on this list with Mac OSX knowledge/experience know how to
get imap to authenticate users who are contain in a mysql database?
Configure PAM to authenticate imap, sieve, pop, etc. to mysql database.
How do I get pam to work with mysql, the pam_mysql project doesn't make on a Mac and no instructions on how to get it to build are available.
Configure saslauthd to use PAM Configure Cyrus to use saslauthd
Some details can be found here: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Postfix-Cyrus-Web-cyradm-HOWTO/
Wow, nice instructions, unfortunately I can't use them because I'm on a Mac and anything 'rpm' related has no value and can't be used so this is useless to me.
Anyway, it appears that all of this software is already installed so unless something needs to be rebuilt, reinstalling it would be a waste of time.
In particular, this setup forces Cyrus to use PLAIN client
authentication. That means connections from users to Cyrus send
passwords in plaintext over the wire unless you set up Cyrus to use TLS
for client connections. Highly recommended.
At this time I could care less how the password is sent, other than suggestions on how to achieve this from people who don't use the OS or they cannot provide instructions that work in Mac OSX, offering a HowTo that utilize a process that does not work in Mac OSX when this is the intended OS/Platform says a lot about the responder.
The only problem I am having is getting cyrus-imap to authenticate users who are stored in a mysql databases, everyone claims this is a configuration issue but don't provide the information so I can do this.
Currently cyrus-sasl can authenticate users from mysql with the libsql.so module so they can authenticate to send e-mail outside the network.
Postfix works with mysql because e-mail can be received and stored for these users.
What they are unable to do is retrieve the e-mail to read because cyrus-imap wont authenticate them.
Any working solution would make me happy but I have yet to be offered anything that works.
-- Jules Agee
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