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From: | Ralf Becker |
Subject: | Re: [Phpgroupware-users] default settings for new users |
Date: | Wed, 26 Mar 2003 13:40:56 +0100 |
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Ralf Utermann wrote:
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 04:43:08PM +0000, Chris Weiss 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.Ack. I did not describe our infrastructure, which is along these lines. We run a campus-wide user managment and try to integrate every (and I really mean every) IT service into this (DCE based) infrastructure. One of the reason to look into phpgw as a groupware system is the ability tointegrate authentication of it's users in our infrastructure; it's nice that you really implemented this possibility. Even this easy imap way is missing in some other open source groupware systems.
My system uses LDAP to do so: Auth is done against LDAP and phpgw accounts are created automaticaly when the user logs in first. LDAP accounts are used for email and shell access (via pam_ldap) too.
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.Sure, I would agree that it's a plus for this system to keep the core components maximum platform independent. But why not allow optional components? I saw the PAM possibility mentionend during setup, a niceexample of a platform specific but nevertheless useful option. Anybodystill working on this?-Ralf
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