authmgr

Name

authmgr — Demultiplexer for authentication requests

Description

authmgr is a service plugin that, for mail account authentication, dynamically selects the authentication backend per user account. The libgxs_mysql_adaptor.so and/or libgxs_ldap_adaptor.so plugins need to be loaded in advance (this is the case by default).

Configuration directives

The usual config file location is /etc/gromox/authmgr.cfg.

auth_backend_selection

This controls how authmgr will verify passwords supplied with login operations. See the "Authentication modes" section below for details.

Available: deny_all, allow_all, externid

Default: externid

Authentication modes

• deny_all rejects every attempt at authentication. This is at best useful for testing.

• allow_all permits every attempt at authentication (provided the user exists). This may be handy when doing the initial mass-import of mailboxes via external IMAP-to-IMAP synchronization utilities such as imapsync without needing to know user passwords.

• externid will cause authmgr to selectively pick LDAP/MySQL, depending on whether the user was imported from LDAP or not.

See also

gromox(7), ldap_adaptor(4gx), mysql_adaptor(4gx)