David Korpiewski <davidk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > So I have this particularly stupid newbie question but don't seem to > have a good answer yet: > > I've found that I have to create the mailboxes for my users before > they can receive email. However, to create the mailboxes, I've had > to log into cyradm and then run the "cm user.username" to make them. > > This is fine, except that I want to script this process. I'm sure > other people have done it. We found a script that will do this, but > we have to put a username and password for one of the cyrus admins in > it, which makes the unix people around here uncomfortable. Other > than using Kerberose for an authentication method to get into cyradm, > is there any other way to create mailboxes? Do you create cyrus mailboxes for *existing* OS accounts? [ Wording of your question make me think it is quite likely ] YES => consider using "autocreate" patch URL(s): http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/ExternalLinks http://email.uoa.gr/projects/cyrus/autocreate/ -- [pl2en: Andrew] Andrzej Adam Filip : anfi@xxxxxxxxxxxx : anfi@xxxxxxxx http://anfi.homeunix.net/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/andfil ---- 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
