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Re: [Phpgroupware-users] default settings for new users
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Brian Johnson |
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Re: [Phpgroupware-users] default settings for new users |
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Tue, 25 Mar 2003 18:03:24 +0000 |
Are there any docs elated to the advantages/disadvatages of the different auth
styles?
>From what I understand, LDAP and Mail would allow the user to change the
>password
for phpgw login and email at the same time while DB auth would not
Chris Weiss (address@hidden) wrote:
>
>mail users only have anything to do with system users if you are using a unix
>mail
>server and happen to use the default where system users are mail users. In
>reality
>IMAP has nothing to do with unix and system users, unix IMAP servers simply and
>commonly use the unix system users for a user database because it's there, but
>not
>always.
>
>Please understand that this is supposed to be a flexable and fully cross
>platform
>application so one cannot assume the use of things like unix system users and
>cron
>and other just things that are not only platform specific but also tend to
>slightly
>vary from version and distrobution amoungst that platform.
>
>Ralf Utermann (address@hidden) wrote:
>>
>>On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:23:59PM +0000, Chris Weiss wrote:
>>> phpgw users and groups have nothing to do with unix users/groups, and for
>security
>>> reasons cannont have direct interaction with unix users/groups.
>>>
>>
>>I have configured phpgw for authentication via Mail, so I think
>>the users do have something to do with unix users.
>>But with groups, it looks like it is completely different. It
>>should be possible to get info via getpwnam(), though.
>>
>>Thanks for your answers,
>>Bye, Ralf
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- [Phpgroupware-users] default settings for new users, Ralf Utermann, 2003/03/25
- Re: [Phpgroupware-users] default settings for new users, Chris Weiss, 2003/03/25
- Re: [Phpgroupware-users] default settings for new users, Chris Weiss, 2003/03/25
- Re: [Phpgroupware-users] default settings for new users, Chris Weiss, 2003/03/25
- Re: [Phpgroupware-users] default settings for new users,
Brian Johnson <=
- Re: [Phpgroupware-users] default settings for new users, Chris Weiss, 2003/03/25
- Re: [Phpgroupware-users] default settings for new users, Brian Johnson, 2003/03/26
- Re: [Phpgroupware-users] default settings for new users, Chris Weiss, 2003/03/26