Re: Does Proxy User Work?

2005-06-01 Thread Tim Pushor
How about backing up the ldap directory, resetting the passwords to a known (to you) password, do the transition, and restore the directory? If thats not possible, how about setting up a new temporary directory with your user accounts and the known password, temporarily point cyrus to it until

Re: Shared folders

2004-08-17 Thread Tim Pushor
William K. Hardeman wrote: No, you have to give your MTA the rights to post into it, which is what the 'anyone p' right does. Giving yourself full rights just allows you to do anything with the box, but doesn't allow any other access. More specifically, you aren't giving your MTA access, you ar

Re: PTS & LDAP Take 3

2004-01-23 Thread Tim Pushor
Sava, Thanks, I had a quick look at what you had there. Looks good. Perhaps I won't have to reinvent the wheel. Thanks again, Tim Sava Chankov wrote: Tim Pushor wrote: No, ldap.c doesn't work for me at all. If there are no memberOf attributes, it dies and user authentication fa

Re: Group based ACL

2004-01-22 Thread Tim Pushor
Rob Siemborski wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Tim Pushor wrote: So nobody knows how to do this? I have looked through the list archives and this has come up several times, with no solutions. I am trying to figure out how to use the new experimental ldap pts code in 2.2.3 but I first of all can&#

Re: Group based ACL

2004-01-22 Thread Tim Pushor
have tried group:xxx syntax, @group (from an old possible recollection of days of old), nothing seems to work. Tim Pushor wrote: This may sound stupid, but what is the syntax assigning a group to an ACL in cyradm? I saw the group:xxx syntax in the docs for 2.2.3, but I think that I interpreted

Group based ACL

2004-01-21 Thread Tim Pushor
This may sound stupid, but what is the syntax assigning a group to an ACL in cyradm? I saw the group:xxx syntax in the docs for 2.2.3, but I think that I interpreted that wrong. Thanks, Tim

Re: PTS & LDAP Take 3

2004-01-18 Thread Tim Pushor
Igor Brezac wrote: You could use ldap_whoami() instead of the first query. Where does that come from? You do not need to do anything with this. The identifier is passed to pts for canonicalization, the group is not validated. I don't see this in ldap.c. The identifier group

Re: PTS & LDAP Take 3

2004-01-18 Thread Tim Pushor
Igor Brezac wrote: I see. I did not realize you were going to retrieve groups with another search filter. This should work. Yeah, I'm sure it will. I wish I could do it in one query though.. How often does the ptloader get called on? Will the pts cache here help at all? What exactly does

Re: PTS & LDAP Take 3

2004-01-18 Thread Tim Pushor
Igor Brezac wrote: I do not see how this is going to work within cyrus context. You will need to change a lot more than just ptloader/ldap code for this to work. Perhaps I don't understand everything involved, but ptloader now just finds the user record via user defineable filter, and only c

Re: PTS & LDAP Take 3

2004-01-17 Thread Tim Pushor
I have determined that the way its currently setup (the ldap ptloader) won't do what I want, so I am in the process of rewriting it for my needs. Interesting. Why is that? (Not using it myself right now, but would like to at some point.) Because it relies on a user having multiple member

PTS & LDAP Take 3

2004-01-17 Thread Tim Pushor
I am assuming by the lack of response that no-one really cares (at least at this point) about LDAP group based authorization. I have determined that the way its currently setup (the ldap ptloader) won't do what I want, so I am in the process of rewriting it for my needs. I am wondring if there

LDAP & ptloader Take2

2004-01-16 Thread Tim Pushor
Ok, after doing some hunting, I found out that my imapd was not being built with the experimental ldap pts module because: 1) For some reason my openldap wasn't installing the liblutil & related header files, and 2) the --with-ldap=/usr/local configure option wasn't enough for configure to see

IMAPD 2.2.3 & LDAP PTS?

2004-01-15 Thread Tim Pushor
I am trying to build the new release of cyrus-imapd, and the compile is failing trying to enable the ldap authorization. I am trying to link it against OpenLDAP 2.1.23. My configure command line: ./configure \ --with-bdb-libdir=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.1/lib\ --with-bdb-incdir=/usr/local/Berkele

Re: Adding Users

2004-01-12 Thread Tim Pushor
I'm not sure, but I'd give it a try. Norman Zhang wrote: I would also make sure that master is running - telnet localhost 143 should give you a banner similar to: * OK host.domain.com Cyrus IMAP4 v2.1.15 server ready Oh okay. I disable port 143 (imap) in favor of 993 (imaps). Does cyradm onl

Re: Adding Users

2004-01-12 Thread Tim Pushor
I would also make sure that master is running - telnet localhost 143 should give you a banner similar to: * OK host.domain.com Cyrus IMAP4 v2.1.15 server ready Jason Williams wrote: I'm pretty sure you need to specify a user that you are going to be connecting with. You also need to make sure

Re: imap migration tools

2004-01-08 Thread Tim Pushor
I too have had this problem in the past. I have had to migrate cyrus -> cyrus, and Groupwise -> cyrus (at least that was the right direction ;-). I cound imapcopy indespensable and the only thing that did the right thing with groupwise. http://home.arcor.de/armin.diehl/imapcopy/imapcopy.html T

Re: Created mailboxes are not showing up.

2003-12-29 Thread Tim Pushor
, whose 'subfolders' (Drafts, Sent, Sent Items (yes, redundant), and Trash) work fine... URL: http://www.starchefs.com/sm/src/loginframeset.php(same as above) User: jessietest Pass: foobarbaz Help! :( On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Ken Murchison wrote: JLB wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 20

Re: Created mailboxes are not showing up.

2003-12-29 Thread Tim Pushor
What mail client are you using? Is the user perhaps not subscribed to those folders? Try checking their subscriptions. To be perfect honest (even though it is rather embarrasing) I don't really understand subscriptions, even though I've been using Cyrus for years ;-) I just had a little stint

Subscriptions

2003-12-29 Thread Tim Pushor
Now that I have sufficiently embarrassed myself by admitting that I really don't know what IMAP subscriptions are for: What exactly are IMAP subscriptions for? ;-) Thanks, Tim

stage. directory?

2003-12-14 Thread Tim Pushor
I am currently writing a backup script that selectively backs up portions of the cyrus imap system, and was wondering what exactly the stage. directory is for? Mine has nothing in it. Will it ever have? Will it get created automatically if I don't back it up? I am running 2.1.15. Thanks, Tim

Re: createmailbox: System I/O error

2003-04-01 Thread Tim Pushor
I'm no expert, but I would check the file permissions on both /var/spool/imap and /var/imap Tim Jay Drake wrote: It now seems as though things are running and I am trying to create mailbox for my initial users. My current imapd.conf is: configdirectory: /var/imap partition-default: /var/spool

Re: Skiplist / best practice for 2.1 branch

2002-11-18 Thread Tim Pushor
Patrick, What version of Berkeley (Sleepycat) DB were you using? What OS? Thanks, Tim Patrick Boutilier wrote: duplicate? mboxlist? seen? subs? tls? db3_nosync, skiplist, skiplist, flat, db3_nosync I had nothing but trouble using db3_nosync for duplicate so I would suggest using skiplis

Re: Skiplist / best practice for 2.1 branch

2002-11-18 Thread Tim Pushor
Rob Siemborski wrote: On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Tim Pushor wrote: I have done some research on the skiplist algorithm, but am wondering about the cyrus implementation. Is it stable? I didn't know anyone else was implementing a persistant skiplist. Our implementation is stable (

Skiplist / best practice for 2.1 branch

2002-11-18 Thread Tim Pushor
All, Hello, and I must first apologize because I know that what I am asking has been covered before, but I am having a difficult time finding information in the archives. I am still running the 1.6 branch on all of my production servers, and want to bring everything up to 2.1. I have resisted

RE: imapd timeout

2002-05-21 Thread Tim Pushor
Good point :) -Original Message- From: Lawrence Greenfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 7:01 PM To: 'David Wright'; 'Cyrus-Info'; Tim Pushor Subject: Re: imapd timeout From: "Tim Pushor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: T

RE: imapd timeout

2002-05-21 Thread Tim Pushor
I wonder how many IMAP processes are short lived enough to make a difference? I know at least on my servers they are fairly long running. POP servers are another story.. Tim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Greenfield Sent: Tues

Re: Secure Imap Problems

2002-05-21 Thread Tim Pushor
try sasl_pwcheck_method: sasldb - Original Message - From: "Phil Dibowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 4:18 PM Subject: Re: Secure Imap Problems > Alright, brand-spankin' new Cyrus-imap 2.0.16 installed from source. > > I want to get regular i

Re: 2.1.4 + sendmail + lmtp

2002-05-14 Thread Tim Pushor
- From: "Gary Mills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tim Pushor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 7:20 AM Subject: Re: 2.1.4 + sendmail + lmtp > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 06:59:22AM -0600, Tim Pushor wrote: > > > >

2.1.4 + sendmail + lmtp

2002-05-14 Thread Tim Pushor
Hi all, I have been playing with 2.1 and have gotten to where I have to configure sendmail for local delivery. I am still running 1.6 in production, and have never used lmtp. I am running sendmail 8.12.3, and looking through cf/README I see that the only mention of lmtp is in the feature local_l

Re: Compilation problem...

2002-05-04 Thread Tim Pushor
What OS are you running? I am running FreeBSD, and it doesn't support O_DSYNC. It seems that this flag ensures that writes to this fd ensure filesystem metadata is written out to disk with every write. I added a #define O_DSYNC O_FSYNC to config.h. I don't think this will hurt anything but perhap

2.1.4 compilation failure on FreeBSD

2002-05-02 Thread Tim Pushor
cyrusdb_skiplist.c: In function `getsyncfd': cyrusdb_skiplist.c:190: `O_DSYNC' undeclared (first use in this function) FreeBSD doesn't support O_DSYNC - is there any risk in redefining it to O_FSYNC? Would it stand to reason that platforms that don't support fdatasync would also not support O_D

Re: Cyrus IMAP 2.1.4 released

2002-05-01 Thread Tim Pushor
I have resisted getting involved in this discussion thus far, but now feel that I must thow in my .135 $CDN. IMO Neither approach is flat out wrong, but I must concede, I cannot find many reasons to condone running external utilities from sieve. AFAIC this opens a can of worms best left closed.

Re: Problem to authenticate unsing PAM

2002-04-26 Thread Tim Pushor
SASL2 will authenticate via pam if you use saslauthd (from memory, might not be entirely correct) ./configure --with-saslauthd --with-pam Then run saslauthd with the -a pam arg (check saslauthd.8) And use pwcheck_method=saslauthd Tim - Original Message - From: "Luc de Louw" <[EMAIL P

SASL Trace

2002-04-11 Thread Tim Pushor
Is there any way to trace what SASL is doing? I am trying to get simon's ldap auxprop patch working, and it isn't. All I am seeing in syslog is badlogin: localhost[127.0.0.1] plaintext timp SASL(-13): user not found: checkpass failed If I new what SASL was trying to do, I could probably figure

More on SASL/Authentication/Authorization

2002-04-10 Thread Tim Pushor
While we're on the subject of SASL and authorization/authentication, if Cyrus IMAP has abstracted authentication through SASL, why is the group ACL still handled locally (in Cyrus) via UNIX groups or Kerberos? I would really like to base group ACL's on the same scheme that authentication is using

[Slightly OT] Cyrus + LDAP

2002-04-09 Thread Tim Pushor
List, This is mostly a LDAP question, but it does pertain to Cyrus IMAP and SASL. I am trying to get Cyrus + Simon's auxprop LDAP patch + OpenLDAP working together. I have never used LDAP. I understand its concept. What I really want to know, is how do you get the users password into the LDAP d

RE: LDAP accounts for Cyrus patch questions

2002-04-09 Thread Tim Pushor
Stupid question alert: This is my first foray into LDAP. I am starting by building LDAP (which is required by SASL, with Simon's auxprop patch), but the docs for building LDAP say that LDAP won't be V3 compliant 'unless OpenLDAP's configure detects a usable Cyrus SASL installation'? Chicken and

OT? (was re: [POLL] Cyrus v2.1 and SASL v2)

2001-11-20 Thread Tim Pushor
While we are talking about taking cyrus and SASL to the next level, is there any plan to remove the dependance that Cyrus has on UNIX groups for group based ACL's? - Original Message - From: "Jeremy Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Christopher D. Audley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Cyrus Mailing

Re: Virus Scanning for Cyrus Email Stores

2001-10-30 Thread Tim Pushor
I would think that virus scanning and attachment blocking should be part of the MTA. Failing that, it could be sandwitched between MTA and local delivery agent. A user could have contracted the virus before the being scanned using a poll type method. FWIW, I am currently working on getting Virge

RE: CERT with two IPs ????

2001-09-17 Thread Tim Pushor
The cert is bound to a DNS name. If from the inside you can make the box respond to the same name as from the ouside, your problem will go away. Tim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of chirs charter Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 10:32 AM T

RE: SUMMARY - Problems configuring FreeBSD v4.3

2001-06-14 Thread Tim Pushor
You may also want to check /usr/local/lib/sasl/Cyrus.conf, and if you plan on using SMTP Auth: /usr/local/lib/sasl/Sendmail.conf Tim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrew Barnes Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 11:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Where to do account management in SASL?

2001-05-12 Thread Tim Pushor
I for one would vote for adding functionality into the SASL API. When I took my users out of my system accounts database and moved them into sasldb, all of a sudden I lost the ability to grant ACL's to groups - because SASL doesn't have any notion of anything but password secrets (and cyrus still

RE: no big msgs?

2001-03-22 Thread Tim Pushor
I routinely download large messages from a cyrus mailstore (currently cyrus 1.6.22) I would check your operating system(s) for network errors. Tim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Olaf Zaplinski Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 3:41 PM To:

RE: Using SASL with Sendmail & IMAPd ...

2000-11-23 Thread Tim Pushor
I just did this with sendmail 8.11.1: You need to compile sendmail with _FFR_UNSAFE_SASL defined to enable a new DontBlameSendmail option to relax the permission check on the sasldb. For example, in the sendmail source distribution Create a site.config.m4 in the devtools/Site directory that con

Cyrus and SASL

2000-11-23 Thread Tim Pushor
I asked this question once before and got no answer, so I am going to pose it again: Now that Cyrus has moved to SASL, how do group rights on ACL's work? I now have a sasldb full of users and I want to use group based rights to grant access to shared folders.. Is it just me or does it seem like

Cyrus upgrade

2000-11-20 Thread Tim Pushor
Hello, I just upgraded Cyrus IMAP 1.5.x to 1.6.22 on a small server with only a few dozen users. The only problem I am currently having is that folder subscriptions are kept inside a directory named the first letter of the username. This directory is not automatically created with cyradm. IMAP su