use kerberos auth in sasl and pam to automatically get a ticket (or kinit manually).. *poof* no password/username prompt. If you already run kerberos this is fairly easy to setup.
Christiaan den Besten wrote: > > > Cyrus doesn't support running imapd from the command line. All process > > are spawned from the master process. > > > > What type of application requires you to run imapd from the command line? > > I *might* be able to add a command line switch which allows you to do this > > if its of general use. > > We have aprox 300 users who have shell access on the same machine as where > the cyrus process runs. It would be -very- nice if they wouldn't have to > enter their username/password whenever they run Pine. > > Pine supports pre-start commands: "ssh-command=/usr/sbin/imapd" is what we > now use with uw-imapd. They can then access their mail folder without having > to authenticate themselves. > > bye, > Chris > > --- > Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus > Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu > List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html