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

[Chris Weiss]

Brian Johnson (address@hidden) wrote:
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>Are there any docs elated to the advantages/disadvatages of the different auth
>styles?
each have their own management and scalability issues, but DB auth is the 
fastest
because for mail and ldap there still needs to be db calls so those are exrta 
work
for the server.  Typicaly it is worth the perfomance trade off for ease of
managability.

>>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
LDAP and Dv allow pw changes, mail does not.  IMAP and POP3 have no built in
password change facility.  However, it is possable to make a hook into the phpgw
account managemant to have a 3rd party service make these changes.  Check out 
the
vmailmrg app in CVS for an example.

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>Chris Weiss (address@hidden) wrote:
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>Ralf Utermann (address@hidden) wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>>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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