[Dovecot] Clients to manage ACL

Martin Ott martin.ott at itk-engineering.de
Wed Apr 7 08:42:04 EEST 2010


Hi Brian,

> Since few clients support ACLs and even fewer do it right (and Horde has
> all sorts of its own problems), I wrote a web client and a system daemon
> to handle ACL manipulation.
> 
> However, the daemon only works on Solaris with real system users (not
> mysql userdb or etc). Our environment was one of real users that can log
> into the machines, so it takes advantage of filesystem ACLs for security
> in the shell/sftp/etc contexts. So it's a limited audience. If anyone is
> interested I can probably get around to finalizing some debugging and
> putting it up on the 'net in mid-May. I might also be willing to
> generalize it to non-system user environments.
> 
> -Brian

this sounds interesting. I'd really appreciate if you could get your work
published. Perhaps we could it addapt so that it fits our needs, since we
currently have a virtual user environment based on ldap.

Martin


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