[kolab-users] Re: delegation feature in debian etch

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Adam Katz <adam at khopis.com> writes:

> Paul Douglas Franklin wrote:
>> Horde runs on a separate system?  I have not tried to add Horde to my 
>> setup yet because I fear messing with my live server until the package 
>> is stable.  But if I could run Horde on another box, I'd be interested.
>> Is this doable?
>
> Horde's support for SSL is complete crap, and it simply didn't support
> the odd authentication options in kolab. 

You are referring to IMAP here? That area might actually still need
some work. I noticed some problems myself but didn't work on fixing it
yet since the whole IMAP thing in the Horde::Kolab module still has
some structural issues that will be solved in Horde 4.

> Kolab also doesn't seem to
> use LDAPS (LDAP with SSL on port 636), so I had some trouble getting
> this to work securely across the internet. 

Any normal Kolab box should definitely support LDAPS otherwise it is
incorrectly configured.

Cheers,

Gunnar

> I ended up using an SSH
> tunnel with a dummy user and installing it as a service running with
> autossh.  The tunnel port-forwards all the non-SSL ports needed, so
> the horde server has access to everything as if it were local.  Just
> be consistent in port numbers (I simply added a high number to the
> real number; 50025 for SMTP, 50143 for IMAP, etc), as you'll have to
> enter them in a dozen or so places in the Horde config.  You'll also
> have to examine every drop-down box in setup for a kolab option.
> Don't forget to add the admin accounts (e.g. manager and
> you at domain.com) to the authentication section's "treat as
> administrators" box.
>
> I couldn't get turba2 working on my Debian Etch box, but everything
> else is pretty smooth.  ... note, some dependencies aren't listed in
> Debian, so there's some simple guesswork involved.  (I regret not
> having taken notes.)
>
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