On 2015-03-10 20:25, Niels Dettenbach wrote: > Am Dienstag, 10. März 2015, 17:48:44 schrieb Manuel Vazquez: >> I understand by the official documentation,this users described there >> are >> can see the mailboxes of the all the users present in the server. >> >> Do it is correct? > Beside this, the admin user(s) are able to create mailboxes / folders > and > maintaining access rights and quotas including delete folders after > setting > the appropiate rights to it. > > It is important to understand the role of the admin user - without i > assume it > would be nearly impossible to set up and maintain a cyrus setup. > True, but for the autocreate feature set we have today ;-) It needs to be understood that any user listed in `admins` setting has -- implicitly -- the 'a' right on *all* mailboxes. The 'a' right does not imply any other rights ('l', 'r', 's' most prominently, though an "admin" doesn't require 'l' specifically in order to be able to have a mailbox appear in a list of mailboxes), but does impose the right to SETACL (including 'l', 'r' and 's', and whichever other ones!). `admins` should be limited very, *very* much, to a rather select group of people/services with a proverbial ``$surname-admin`` account -- it is the sysadmin/root equivalent of a system otherwise normally a sealed system. Kind regards, Jeroen van Meeuwen -- Systems Architect, Kolab Systems AG e: vanmeeuwen at kolabsys.com m: +41 79 951 9003 w: https://kolabsystems.com pgp: 9342 BF08 ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus