[Alpine-info] Trying to get Web Alpine to work

[Mike Brudenell]

Greetings -

On 20 Mar 2008, at 23:06, Gary Mills wrote:

> I didn't know that web alpine could be used without Kerberos, as it

> seemed to depend on Kerberos for its single-signon facility.  How did

> you get it to work without Kerberos?


My ignorance is a wonderful thing... it didn't occur to me that it  
might *require* Kerberos so I assumed it didn't.

Basically when I ran the ./configure script I added "--without-krb5"  
and it configured and compiled cleanly.

The Web Alpine web pages aren't password-protected themselves.   
Instead you complete a form on its login page to supply your username  
and password for the IMAP server; Web Alpine then uses these to  
connect, presumably caching them for any subsequent authentications  
that might become necessary.

So I'm guessing I'm just not using single-signon... I assume that  
would let me authenticate just once to a set of web servers and access  
any of their content, including the Web Alpine service, without having  
to enter my username/password again.

We treat our Webmail Service as a standalone service, hence for our  
needs we use Web Alpine just fine without either Kerberos or the UW  
Single Signon Cookie.

Cheers,
Mike B-)

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