[Kolab-devel] IMAP ACL using a distributionlist

[Martin Konold]

Am Sonntag, 5. Juni 2005 22:55 schrieb Till Adam:

Hi,

> > What is the contents of /kolab/etc/imapd/imapd.group ?
>
> We figured it out, the acl needs to be added with a group: prefix, like so:
>
> group:foo at domain.tld

Yes, this is correct. This is due to namespace issues in the traditional unix 
user/group model. In Unix in contrast to Windows a user and a group may have 
the same name.

E.g. you may have a user "foo" and a group "foo".

Till: From a technical point of view in Kontact we don't allow for users and 
DLs to have the same name. So we don't allow the ambiguousness of Unix but 
limit ourself to unique names.

--> the  burden of prefixing the ACL can be put on the Kolab client instead of 
the user.

Regards,
-- martin

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