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

[Ralf Becker]

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 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.

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

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