Re: [Phpgroupware-users] default settings for new users

[Chris Weiss]

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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