[Kolab-devel] Cyrus IMAP groups patch

[Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems)]

Dear readers,

I stumble upon the "groups patch" which enables cyrus-imapd to read an 
arbitrary groups file as opposed to using the system getgrent(3) call (if and 
when using the UNIX groups, that is).

Afaik, getgrent(3) will return groups from anything PAM can handle and that 
does groups.

I'm wondering what the use-case behind the groups patch is, and whether 
someone could tell me about a valid production implementation scenario so that 
I can push this upstream. So far, the only use case I can see is parallel 
Kolab deployments using OpenPKG -which of course is not going to be a valid 
argument for upstream, and has alternatives that better align with native 
packaging such as chroots.

Feedback would be appreciated.

Kind regards,

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Jeroen van Meeuwen
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