Why is there a separate userbase for the application?

[lweijl]

Hi there,

What's the reason for ViMbAdmin to have a separate user base for the application itself? I would like to be able to have a super admin account, which also has a mailbox within a domain and have that account be the domain admin of one or more domains within the system.

Besides that, it looks to me that the user base passwords for the application itself is MD5 hashed, while the mailbox passwords have the ability of a much more powerful encryption. Can anyone clarify this for me? I'm trying to figure out if this application is featured and secure enough for my needs.

Thanks in advance!
Lennart

[barryo]

What's the reason for ViMbAdmin to have a separate user base for the application itself?

Many deployments are service provider based where a separate userbase is required.

I would like to be able to have a super admin account, which also has a mailbox within a domain
and have that account be the domain admin of one or more domains within the system.

A super admin can edit any domain so this functionality is available. I don't see the issue here?

Besides that, it looks to me that the user base passwords for the application itself is MD5 hashed

MD5 hashed with salt. See securitysalt parameter in the configuration file. V3 will move to configurable password hashing for admins with bcrypt as the default.

[lweijl]

Thanks, that clarified a lot. I am having trouble creating mailboxes though. The creation seems to go okay, but the actual mailbox is never created on the filesystem. I'm assuming the mail user that is configured within the configuration file is the one that is used for these actions? Syslog nor any other log file is telling why the creation is failing..

I guess the question is, how does ViMbAdmin create mailboxes and their users on the filesystem and which applications/commands are used in the process? I guess I could look at the source code but this way anyone with this question/problem can find it.

[barryo]

I guess the question is, how does ViMbAdmin create mailboxes and their users on the filesystem

ViMbAdmin doesn't - Dovecot deliver or whatever LDA (local delivery agent) you are using does this. V2 is poorly documented on this aspect (which is why we refer you to PostfixAdmin docs as it's the same type of thing). V3 will be better documented and much more flexible in this area.