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David <drio_at_helping2help.com> writes: > On 24 Aug 2001, Steffen Neumann wrote: [...] > > And the passwords/token are associated with > > the respective uid of apache and cyrus. > > Ok, know I see it. > > And one more thing... Why do the tokens expires? And the only way > to refresh the tokens is use the crontab system? I'd say for security reasons. It boils down to a forced daily authentication for clients/users. The cron method is a rather crude workaround, since you are not meant to store passwords in the clear on any machine :-( You might want to investigate the source: sed -e s/25h/9999h/g vice/* (won't work, but you get the idea) Yours, SteffenReceived on 2001-08-27 03:47:33