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

[Ralf Utermann]

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 to
integrate 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.
> 
> 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 nice
example of a platform specific but nevertheless useful option. Anybody
still working on this? 

-Ralf
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