Re: Failing to authenticate on the frontends

From: Michael Loftis (no email)
Date: Wed Oct 04 2006 - 12:41:30 EDT

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    --On October 4, 2006 4:18:41 PM +0100 Jesus Roncero <>
    wrote:

    <...>>
    > So, the question is, isn't the frontend supposed to contact the backend
    > responsible of that mailbox in order to authenticate the user? or it
    > needs to have "joe"'s password at the frontend as well?

    Authentication of the user happens at the frontend. The frontend then uses
    the proxy credentials to authorize as the user on the backend. The
    backends don't need a full user database, just the proxy information.

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