Re: why does cyrus have to have a password

2005-12-23 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 15:37 -0500, Ralph Blach wrote: > When I want to use cyradm, I have to give cyrus a password, or else I > cannont use cyradm. Is there a way around this problem? > > I would really not like people to be able to ssh into the cyrus account. we check authentication in LDAP, so

Re: why does cyrus have to have a password

2005-12-19 Thread Bill Kearney
> I would really not like people to be able to ssh into the cyrus account. Look into how your OS restricts logins. No doubt pam or whatever can be configured to specifically deny non-localhost logins to that account. Most handle root this way too. Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyr

Re: why does cyrus have to have a password

2005-12-19 Thread Chris Hilts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Haase wrote: >> I would really not like people to be able to ssh into the cyrus account. > > set the login shell of your cyrus admin user to /bin/false or something > similiar. Specifically, check the AllowGroups/AllowUsers and DenyGroups/Den

Re: why does cyrus have to have a password

2005-12-19 Thread Andreas Haase
Ralph, On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Ralph Blach wrote: When I want to use cyradm, I have to give cyrus a password, or else I cannont use cyradm. Is there a way around this problem? Would it be better to have access from the web to your cyrus without any restriction? I would really not like people