Re: [Phpgroupware-users] Authentication Question

[Chris Weiss]

phpGW supports authing to an IMAP server.  Easiest way is to set it up for SQL
accounts, then add an account that matches the imap acocunt that you want to be 
the
admin.  Grant that user admin rights and login.  Once that works, login to 
/setup
config and change the authentication type to mail.  There is some auto-create 
code
in the login sequence to create a new phpgw account with some defaults if the
account auths to the imap server, but this has been at various levels of 
"working"
and i'm unsure of its current status.  Worst case, you have to add the accounts 
in
phpgw but the password will be ignored, and if the mail server pw changes, phpgw
will recognize that without a hitch.

You can also use LDAP if want.  Mail auth is the easiest to setup from scratch, 
but
LDAP is more flexable.

Brian McCann (address@hidden) wrote*:
>
>I've got a question for you all.  I'm new to the list and the program,
>but I totally love it.  I'm going to be rolling it out in a few weeks,
>and I need some help.  Namely, I need to make the mail app work, which
>isn't a problem...but my question is about authentication of the whole
>thing?  What is the easiest way to authenticate people so that the same
>user doesn't have accounts all over the system (one in passwd for mail,
>one in MySQL for phpGroupWare)?  And on that note...what MTA/IMAP server
>will support that, so they will all play nicely together?  I'm using
>SendMail now, but I wouldn't mind learning Qmail if it would make the
>job easier.  And if it helps, this will be serving about 100 people at
>most.
>
>Thanks,
>--Brian McCann
>
>
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