[blfs-support] New dovecot page: '--with-...' specs.
lfs65 at cruziero.com
Thu Nov 14 03:40:42 PST 2013
On the new dovecot page (
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/server/dovecot.html), the section
'Command Explanations' lists the five options '--with-ldap' et seq: yet none of
them actually appear in the commands. I've noticed a similar thing in several
places in blfs74 book.
Apols if have missed an earlier discussion on that, but: is this an error in
rendering; or is it kindof that those '--with-ldap' &c options are really meant
as a sort-of subsection concerning other main parameters that the user might
want to consider? But in any case, them appearing as-is just looks like it's an
error (e.g. "has a chunk of text been lopped off the 'configure ...' commmand?"),
and one repeated elsewhere in the book.
In a related vein, given that four of the above-noted five options are stated
to be re auth, could I also recommend noting that (at least) the following auth
methods are enabled by default:
--with-shadow Build with shadow password support (auto)
--with-pam Build with PAM support (auto)
--with-bsdauth Build with BSD authentication support (auto)
--with-vpopmail Build with vpopmail support (auto)
I think it's worth stating that explicitly so that folks can see at-a-glance
that dovecot does handle those ( - don't hide its light under a bushel). One of
the central considerations, of course, in choosing a pop/imap server is in what
authentication methods can it handle, and how it would in this respect integrate
with other parts of infrastructure. Sure, folks considering using it seriously,
would do their due diligence anyhow and not just make a decision based on a
single 3rd-party page (in this case, the blfs page): but still, it doesn't hurt
to state it up-front by noting the default methods additional to said list.
(It was a pleasant surprise to see dovecot finally added. It has worked well in
production here, and servers rolled out from here, for years now - back to the
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