From: Kjetil Torgrim Homme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 10:34 -0500, Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote: > > From: Andrew Morgan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote: > > > > > This script requires a password, which means you have to run it > > > interactively or else put the password in a file. I'm looking for a > > > noninteractive way to create a mailbox without having to put a > password > > > in a file. > > > > Let's think about this... You're looking for a way to have admin > > privileges without authenticating for them? Sounds like trouble to > > me... :) > > Well, you'd have to be "root" or "cyrus" to run it. | you'd have to be "root" (or whatever) to read the file with password, | too. That's a good point. Our security gurus frown on putting passwords in files, but in this case it isn't as insecure as I originally thought. I may consider it if I can't think of anything better. Larry ---- 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
