Postfix Cyrus Web cyradm HOWTO

touch /var/log/web cyradm.log

chown nobody /var/log/web cyradm.log

After unpacking web cyradm, move it to a place in your webserver's documentroot.

Thats all. Now you need to configure the whole bunch of software.

Web cyradm 0.5.4 is considered stable, and was released on 2003 12 05

Since web cyradm uses PEAR for its database abstraction layer, you also need a

recent copy of PEAR. This is included in recent PHP Versions. I strongly suggest to

update PHP to 4.3.4, because a lot of important bugs have been fixed.

A frequent mistake is to forget to touch the logfile and change the owner to the

Apache UID. This is usually  nobody  or  wwwrun .

3.8.3. Create the databases and tables

Now we need to create the database and tables for Postfix and Web cyradm and add

a user to the database.

Web cyradm comes with several MySQL scripts:

insertuser_mysql.sql

and

create_mysql.sql

. The first inserts the Database user to the database  mysql 

and creates the database  mail . The second creates the required tables and

populates the database with an initial admin user and the cyrus user.

The other scripts are used for incremental upgrading from older releases.

The password for the database user  mail  in this example is  secret . Please insert

whatever user and password you like.

The username for the initial superuser is  admin  with the password  test .

Change the default password!

If a malicious user wants to gain unauthorized access to a

system, the first attempt is always the default username and

password supplied by the vendor. It is IMPORTANT that you

change them in the scripts before applying them.

After customizing the username and password, apply the scripts:

/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql  u root  p < \

/usr/local/apache/htdocs/web cyradm/scripts/insertuser_mysql.sql

/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql mail  u mail  p < \

/usr/local/apache/htdocs/web cyradm/scripts/create_mysql.sql

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