Re: non system passwords in sqwebmail

Hi Brian,
On Tuesday 02 March 2004 14:37, Brian Candler wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 09:22:13PM -0800, Eric Walstad wrote:
> > # dpkg -l | grep webmail
> > ii  sqwebmail      0.44.2-1       Courier Mail Server - Webmail
> > server
> >
> > Do I need to use authuserdb to achieve this functionality?
>
> That's certainly one way, and IMO the simplest to get started with.
> Other ways include LDAP, mysql, pgsql authentication.
My system will service 25 people or less, so I'm guessing this is the 
way I want to go.


> > If so, how
> > do I configure it after installing the Debian package?  All the
> > docs I've seen only mention the compile-time configure script,
> > which I don't think I have.
>
> If the Debian packager provided information on how it was built,
> consult it. If they did not, either complain to them, or build it
> again from source.
I tried downloading the source, but it was not clear to me what 
configure switches were used to compile it.  I'm not a Debian Package 
wizard, so I'm not sure how to find that info.  I'll query the 
debian-user mailing list.


> You may find that you have authuserdb support already. If sqwebmail
> was built with both authdaemond and authuserdb, the authuserdb code
> will be built in to authdaemond already. (In which case there will
> not be a separate 'authuserdb' file in the package)
I'm pretty sure I have authdaemond as I have the Debian package 
installed.

Thanks for your time and help!

Best,

Eric.