ODBCAuth Manual

Configuration options

Setting Default
database_driver ODBCAuth
database_user
database_pass
database_table maildb
field_username username
field_password password
field_translate
loglevel info
debug false
domain
database_driver: This is the name of the ODBC data source.

database_user:   This is the login username for the ODBC data source.

database_pass:   This is the login password for the ODBC data source.

database_table:  This is the table within the ODBC data source to use.

field_username:  This is the name of the field that contains the users username.

field_password:  This is the name of the field what contains the users password.

field_translate: This setting allows you to translate field names, for example
                 "field_translate forward fwd" will cause ODBCAuth to read
                 the "forward" field from the database and return it as "fwd",
                 the opposite is true if you set a user and set fwd="foo" then
                 ODBCAuth will set the forward field to "foo".

loglevel:        The amount of data to log, error logs only errors, info logs
                 errors and info, debug logs everything.

debug:           If set to "true" has same effect as "loglevel debug".

domain:          The domain name, if set this domain name is appended to all
                 usernames returned by all the commands. It is NOT appended to
                 usernames added to the system.

Command Line Options

-path        Tells ODBCAuth where to create it's logfile and where to find it's
             config file.

-debug       Sets the logging level to debug.

Supported Commands

Command Parameters
check <user> <pass>
lookup <user>
set <user> <pass>|(NULL) [label="value"]
del <user>
search <string> [-from n] [-max m]
version
help
quit
exit
check        Verifies user <user> has password <pass>, this command also
             returns the users other field values.

lookup       Verifies the existance of user <user> and returns users fields
             as the check field above does.

set          Add new user or modify an existing user. The special case (NULL)
             is used to modify a users info without re-setting the password.
             Label="value" is the format used to set the other database fields.

del          Deletes a user.

search       Returns a list of users matching the search <string>, the string
             may contain a * or ? wildcard, if it does the string is matched
             as if it was a wildcard string, otherwise a match is found only
             if the username contains the string.

version      Returns the version number.

help         Returns the above list of commands

quit         Ends session

exit         Ends session

Command Responses

A command will usually respond with a one line response, that response will
start with +OK or -ERR, example:
  +OK User test@domain.com created successfully
  -ERR Failed to create test@domain.com.

If a command wants to return more that one line as a response it will send
lines starting with +DATA before the final +OK or -ERR response, example:
  +DATA test@domain.com config 111
  +DATA test2@domain.com config 112
  +OK Search Complete 2 items found out of 80

If UnixAuth has a fatal error while trying to initialise then it will return
a -DEAD message like the following...
  -DEAD Failed to load config settings, access denied

If you have any questions about ODBCAuth please don't hesitate to contact:
  support-netauth@netwinsite.com