courier-authlib Meta-port for the courier authentication library

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Maintainer: madpilot@FreeBSD.org 👁 search for ports maintained by this maintainer

Port Added: 2005-04-26 19:18:10

Last Update: 2026-03-09 18:58:36

Commit Hash: 4bdd008

People watching this port, also watch:: courier-imap, clamav, postfix, courier-authlib-base

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License: NA

WWW:

https://www.Courier-MTA.org/authlib/

Description:

The Courier Authentication Library is a generic authentication API used for two purposes: 1. Read the name of a mail account. Determine the local account's home directory, and system userid and groupid. 2. Read an account name, and a password. If valid, determine the account's home directory, system userid, and groupid.

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1. /usr/local/share/licenses/courier-authlib-0.72.7/catalog.mk
2. /usr/local/share/licenses/courier-authlib-0.72.7/LICENSE
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Dependency lines:

• courier-authlib>0:security/courier-authlib

Conflicts:

CONFLICTS:

• courier-0.45*

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NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.

PKGNAME: courier-authlib

Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.

distinfo:

TIMESTAMP = 1768305851 SHA256 (courier-authlib-0.72.7.tar.bz2) = d9f764aa10c9c8d9b148ae9ba647a975cf41291800b8972c1a16bee64d6d913b SIZE (courier-authlib-0.72.7.tar.bz2) = 2803129

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Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):

courier-authlib

ABI	aarch64	amd64	armv6	armv7	i386	powerpc	powerpc64	powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest	0.72.7	0.72.7	0.71.0	0.72.4	0.72.7	n/a	n/a	n/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly	0.72.6	0.72.7	0.72.0	0.72.4	0.72.6	n/a	n/a	n/a
FreeBSD:14:latest	0.72.7	0.72.7	0.72.0	0.72.4	0.72.7	0.72.0	-	0.72.0
FreeBSD:14:quarterly	0.72.7	0.72.7	-	0.72.4	0.72.7	0.72.0	0.72.0	0.72.0
FreeBSD:15:latest	0.72.7	0.72.7	n/a	0.72.4	n/a	n/a	0.72.1	0.72.1
FreeBSD:15:quarterly	0.72.7	0.72.7	n/a	-	n/a	n/a	-	-
FreeBSD:16:latest	0.72.7	0.72.7	n/a	-	n/a	n/a	-	-

Slave ports:

1. databases/courier-authlib-mysql
2. databases/courier-authlib-pgsql
3. databases/courier-authlib-sqlite
4. databases/courier-authlib-userdb
5. databases/courier-authlib-usergdbm
6. mail/courier-authlib-vchkpw
7. net/courier-authlib-ldap
8. security/courier-authlib-base

Dependencies

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Runtime dependencies:

1. courierauthconfig : security/courier-authlib-base

There are no ports dependent upon this port

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Configuration Options:

===> The following configuration options are available for courier-authlib-0.72.7: AUTH_LDAP=off: LDAP support AUTH_MYSQL=off: MySQL support AUTH_PGSQL=off: PostgreSQL support AUTH_SQLITE=off: SQLite support AUTH_USERDB=off: Userdb support AUTH_VCHKPW=off: popmail/vchkpw support DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation GDBM=off: GNU dbm library support ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings

Options name:

security_courier-authlib

USES:

metaport

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Master Sites:

1. There is no master site for this port.

security/courier-authlib: Switch to LIB_DEPENDS for module dependencies

PR:		293399

security/courier-authlib: apply metaport USES

PR:		292984

security/courier-authlib: Remove trailing whitespace in Makefile

security/courier-authlib: Update to 0.72.7

security/courier-authlib: Update to 0.72.6

security/courier-authlib: Update to 0.72.5

security/courier-authlib: Update to 0.72.4

security/courier-authlib: Update to 0.72.3

- Add LICENSE

security/courier-authlib: Update to 0.72.1

- Add new depndencies
- Regenerate patches
- Reset PORTREVISION on slave ports

While here move man pages to share/man.

devel/courier-unicode: Update to 2.3.0

Bump dependencies PORTREVISION to chase shared library major version
number bump.

Mk/**ldap.mk: Convert USE_LDAP to USES=ldap

Convert the USE_LDAP=yes to USES=ldap and adds the following features:

- Adds the argument USES=ldap:server to add openldap2{4|5|6}-server as
 RUN_DEPENDS
- Adds the argument USES=ldap<version> and replaces WANT_OPENLDAP_VER
- Adds OPENLDAP versions in bsd.default-versions.mk
- Adds USE_OPENLDAP/WANT_OPENLDAP_VER in Mk/bsd.sanity.mk
- Changes consumers to use the features

Reviewed by:	delphij
Approved by:	portmgr
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D38233

security/courier-authlib: Update to 0.72.0

security/courier-authlib: Update to 0.71.6

Remove WWW entries moved into port Makefiles

Commit b7f05445c00f has added WWW entries to port Makefiles based on
WWW: lines in pkg-descr files.

This commit removes the WWW: lines of moved-over URLs from these
pkg-descr files.

Approved by:		portmgr (tcberner)

Add WWW entries to port Makefiles

It has been common practice to have one or more URLs at the end of the
ports' pkg-descr files, one per line and prefixed with "WWW:". These
URLs should point at a project website or other relevant resources.

Access to these URLs required processing of the pkg-descr files, and
they have often become stale over time. If more than one such URL was
present in a pkg-descr file, only the first one was tarnsfered into
the port INDEX, but for many ports only the last line did contain the
port specific URL to further information.

There have been several proposals to make a project URL available as
a macro in the ports' Makefiles, over time.

cleanup: remove 'Created by' lines

A big Thank You to the original contributors of these ports:

 * Alex Trull <freebsd.alex@trull.org>
 * Alonso Cardenas <acm@FreeBSD.org>
 * Boris Samorodov <bsam@FreeBSD.org>
 * David Shane Holden <dpejesh@yahoo.com>
 * Felix Palmen <felix@palmen-it.de>
 * Hirohisa Yamaguchi <umq@ueo.co.jp>
 * Kevin Bowling <kbowling@FreeBSD.org>
 * Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira <lioux@FreeBSD.org>
 * Markus Mann, CTS - FreeBSD Team <de-freebsd@ctseuro.com>
 * Matthias Andree
 * Matthias Fechner <mfechner@FreeBSD.org>
 * Oleg Sidorkin <osidorkin@gmail.com>
 * Oliver Lehmann
 * Radim Kolar <hsn@sendmail.cz>
 * Timothy Beyer <beyert@cs.ucr.edu>
 * hq@FreeBSD.org
 * johalun0@gmail.com
 * lev@FreeBSD.org
 * rooneg@electricjellyfish.net

With hat:	portmgr

security: remove 'Created by' lines

A big Thank You to the original contributors of these ports:

 * <ports@c0decafe.net>
 * Aaron Dalton <aaron@FreeBSD.org>
 * Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org>
 * Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org>
 * Aldis Berjoza <aldis@bsdroot.lv>
 * Alex Dupre <ale@FreeBSD.org>
 * Alex Kapranoff <kappa@rambler-co.ru>
 * Alex Samorukov <samm@freebsd.org>
 * Alexander Botero-Lowry <alex@foxybanana.com>
 * Alexander Kriventsov <avk@vl.ru>
 * Alexander Leidinger <netchild@FreeBSD.org>

security/courier-authlib: Update to 0.71.5

security/courier-authlib: Update to 0.71.4

Changes:

Fix a theoretical memory corruption during authentication if the
process runs out of memory. The server does not do much memory
allocation prior to authentication, this is mostly academic.

MFH:		2022Q1

security/courier-authlib: Update to 0.71.3

all: Remove all other $FreeBSD keywords.

Remove # $FreeBSD$ from Makefiles.

Fix @sample usage, problem exposed by r569271.

Update courier-authlib to 0.71.2

Update courier-authlib ports to 0.71.1

Add databases/courier-authlib-sqlite port to install sqlite support
for courier-authlib

Suggested by:	Ewout Boks <ewout@boks.com>

Update courier-authlib and descending ports to 0.71.0

Update courier-authlib to 0.70.0

Move remaining USE_MYSQL, WANT_MYSQL_VER to USES=mysql

- Update courier-authlib to 0.69.1
- Avoid uninstalllation leftovers by fixing plists
- Perform a small whitespace fix

Bump PORTREVISION for ports depending on the canonical version of GCC
as defined in Mk/bsd.default-versions.mk which has moved from GCC 8.3
to GCC 9.1 under most circumstances now after revision 507371.

This includes ports
 - with USE_GCC=yes or USE_GCC=any,
 - with USES=fortran,
 - using Mk/bsd.octave.mk which in turn features USES=fortran, and
 - with USES=compiler specifying openmp, nestedfct, c11, c++0x, c++11-lang,
 c++11-lib, c++14-lang, c++17-lang, or gcc-c++11-lib
plus, everything INDEX-11 shows with a dependency on lang/gcc9 now.

PR:		238330

security/courier-authlib: fix build of databases/courier-authlib-mysql on GCC
architectures

Linking with libmysqlclient now requires new GCC because of -latomic.

Approved by:	mentors (implicit approval)

Update `databases/gdbm' to version 1.18.1, an important bugfix release
which restores compatibility with old databases (version 1.8) and some
later versions which were built without mmap(2) support. Due to shlib
version change, bump port revisions of the consumer ports.

PR:		233059
Exp-run by:	antoine
Approved by:	maintainer (johans, numerous timeouts)

- Update devel/courier-unicode to 2.1
- Convert to USES localbase
- Update mail/cone to 1.0 [1]
- Update mail/courier-imap to 5.0.0
- Add LICENSE
- Update mail/maildrop to 3.0.0
- Remove IDN option since it's now mandatory
- Update mail/sqwebmail to 6.0.0 [2]
- Update security/courier-authlib to 0.69.0
- Add note to UPDATING
- Silence some portlint warnings

PR:			231471 [1]
Submitted by:		me
Approved by:		Maintainer timeout [1],
			oliver@ [2]
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17234

Add DOCS options to ports that should have one.

Also various fixes related to said option.

PR:		230864
Submitted by:	mat
exp-runs by:	antoine

Fix shebang for expect script in courier-authlib-base to work with
the ports provided expect command (if installed).

PR:		208036
Submitted by:	jay-fbbu@g-cipher.net

Make courier-autlib ports run the sysconftool on installation, as
suggested by upstream, like courier-imap port does.

The sample files are renamed to ".dist" because that is the name
the tool expects.

Also added a note to UPDATING to warn users about the sysconftool
expecting the comments not to be removed.

While here convert to localbase.

Suggested by:	Doug McIntyre <merlyn at iphouse.net>

- Update devel/courier-unicode to 2.0
- Update mail/cone to 0.96
- Update mail/courier-imap to 4.18.0 [1]
- Update mail/maildrop to 2.9.0
- Update mail/sqwebmail to 5.9.0 [1]
- Update security/courier-authlib (and slaves) to 0.68.0 [1]

On request from oliver@, take maintainership of the courier-authlib
ports and the courier-imap port.

Approved by:		oliver@ (maintainer) [1]
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11467

Cleanup NO_BUILD and NO_INSTALL usage.

Sponsored by:	Absolight

${RM} already has -f.

PR:		213570
Submitted by:	mat
Exp-run by:	antoine
Sponsored by:	Absolight

Remove ${PORTSDIR}/ from dependencies, categories r, s, t, and u.

With hat:	portmgr
Sponsored by:	Absolight

Remove deprecated @dirrm, convert to @dir where needed

Approved by:	portmgr blanket

- Update mail/courier-imap to 4.16.2
- Update mail/sqwebmail to 5.8.3
- Update security/courier-authlib to 0.66.3
- Remove no more needed patch from mail/maildrop

Approved by:		oliver (maintainer)
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2975

Remove deprecated USE_RCORDER which was already off except if one enforced
WITH_RCORDER

MASTER_SITES cleanup.

- Replace ${MASTER_SITE_FOO} with FOO.
- Merge MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR into MASTER_SITES when possible. (This means 99.9%
 of the time.)
- Remove occurrences of MASTER_SITE_LOCAL when no subdirectory was present and
 no hint of what it should be was present.
- Fix some logic.
- And generally, make things more simple and easy to understand.

While there, add magic values to the FESTIVAL, GENTOO, GIMP, GNUPG, QT and
SAMBA macros.

Also, replace some EXTRACT_SUFX occurences with USES=tar:*.

Checked by:	make fetch-urlall-list
With hat:	portmgr
Sponsored by:	Absolight

- Update courier-unicode to 1.2
- Update courier-imap to 4.16.1
- Update maildrop to 2.8.2
- Update sqwebmail to 5.8.2
- Update courier-authlib to 0.66.2
- Some plist and Makefile modernization

Approved by:		oliver@ (as maintainer of various of these ports)
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2391

Finally retire USE_PGSQL

fix scrip

PR:		193707
Submitted by:	a.ulasov

Replace USE_AUTOTOOLS=libltdl with an ordinary LIB_DEPENDS in all ports.
There are only 60 such ports so there doesn't need to be a separate
keyword or USES for this.

Approved by:	portmgr (bapt)

*/courier-authlib*:
- Add USES=libtool
- Remove USE_LDCONFIG, not needed for modules
- Disable static modules
- Remove install-configure from INSTALL_TARGET, no impact with staging
- Add manpages to pkg-plist
- Use @sample
- Replace pkg-(de)install and pre-install target with USERS and GROUPS
- Create /var/run/authdaemond at package installation instead of in rc
 script

Convert a bunch of USE_BZIP2 to USES=tar:bzip2

Approved by:	portmgr (not really, but touches unstaged ports)

Rename all patches that contain '::' as a path separator, and use
'__' instead.

Add DOCS to OPTIONS_DEFINE to ports that check for PORT_OPTIONS:MDOCS.

Convert to modern LIB_DEPENDS

add STAGE support

update to 0.66.1

update to 0.66.0

Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
security)

Convert to new perl framework
Convert USE_GMAKE to USES=gmake

add USES=iconv which it does

Noted by:	mat

- adoption of optionsNG

Approved by:	portmgr (miwi)

disable SQLite support for the time being (no child port exists)

Feature safe: yes

update to 0.65.0

Feature safe:	yes

Move the rc.d scripts of the form *.sh.in to *.in

Where necessary add $FreeBSD$ to the file

No PORTREVISION bump necessary because this is a no-op

update courier-authlib to 0.64.0

In the rc.d scripts, change assignments to rcvar to use the
literal name_enable wherever possible, and ${name}_enable
when it's not, to prepare for the demise of set_rcvar().

In cases where I had to hand-edit unusual instances also
modify formatting slightly to be more uniform (and in
some cases, correct). This includes adding some $FreeBSD$
tags, and most importantly moving rcvar= to right after
name= so it's clear that one is derived from the other.

- Add LDFLAGS to CONFIGURE_ENV and MAKE_ENV (as it was done with LDFLAGS)
- Fix all ports that add {CPP,LD}FLAGS to *_ENV to modify flags instead

PR: 157936
Submitted by: myself
Exp-runs by: pav
Approved by: pav

- Track dependencies after databases/gdbm update

-remove MD5

Sync to new bsd.autotools.mk

remove PORTREVISION definition from net/courier-authlib-ldap
bump PORTREVISION to 2

set UNIQUENAME, thus fix slave ports after switching to USE_LDCONFIG.

Reported by: pointyhat

Convert LDCONFIG_DIRS to USE_LDCONFIG.

PR: based on ports/146365
Submitted by: Alex Kozlov <spam at rm-rf.kiev.ua>
Approved by: maintainers timeout (two weeks)

Begin the process of deprecating sysutils/rc_subr by
s#. %%RC_SUBR%%#. /etc/rc.subr#

update to 0.63.0

- Switch SourceForge ports to the new File Release System: categories starting
with P,R,S

-Repocopy devel/libtool15 -> libtool22 and libltdl15 -> libltdl22.
-Update libtool and libltdl to 2.2.6a.
-Remove devel/libtool15 and devel/libltdl15.
-Fix ports build with libtool22/libltdl22.
-Bump ports that depend on libltdl22 due to shared library version change.
-Explain what to do update in the UPDATING.

It has been tested with GNOME2, XFCE4, KDE3, KDE4 and other many wm/desktop
and applications in the runtime.

With help: marcus and kwm
Pointyhat-exp: a few times by pav
Tested by: pgollucci, "Romain Tartière" <romain@blogreen.org>, and
 a few MarcusCom CVS users. Also, I might have missed a few.
Repocopy by: marcus
Approved by: portmgr

update to 0.62.4

update to 0.62.2

update to 0.62.1

update to 0.61.1

Update CONFIGURE_ARGS for how we pass CONFIGURE_TARGET to configure script.
Specifically, newer autoconf (> 2.13) has different semantic of the
configure target. In short, one should use --build=CONFIGURE_TARGET
instead of CONFIGURE_TARGET directly. Otherwise, you will get a warning
and the old semantic may be removed in later autoconf releases.

To workaround this issue, many ports hack the CONFIGURE_TARGET variable
so that it contains the ``--build='' prefix.

To solve this issue, under the fact that some ports still have
configure script generated by the old autoconf, we use runtime detection
in the do-configure target so that the proper argument can be used.

Changes to Mk/*:
 - Add runtime detection magic in bsd.port.mk

update to 0.61.0

update to 0.60.6

update to 0.60.4
the vpopmail support was removed with 0.60.3 (because none felt responsible
for maintaining it in courier-authlib) - this commit adds - togehter with
this update - a patch which patches the vpopmail support back into 0.60.4
(because at least I need the interaction with vpopmail!).

- Remove unneeded dependency from gtk12/gtk20 [1]
- Remove USE_XLIB/USE_X_PREFIX/USE_XPM in favor of USE_XORG
- Remove X11BASE support in favor of LOCALBASE or PREFIX
- Use USE_LDCONFIG instead of INSTALLS_SHLIB
- Remove unneeded USE_GCC 3.4+

Thanks to all Helpers:
 Dmitry Marakasov, Chess Griffin, beech@, dinoex, rafan, gahr,
 ehaupt, nox, itetcu, flz, pav

PR: 116263
Tested on: pointyhat
Approved by: portmgr (pav)

update to 0.60.2

update to 0.60.1

fix the patch I messed up!
*sigh*

fix build of courier-authlib-vchkpw

update to 0.60.0

fix the build for gcc 4.2 when compiling courier-authlib-vchkpw

remove "restart_cmd" to make restart work again

update to 0.59.3

update to 0.59.2

update to 0.59.1

update to 0.59

Remove USE_REINPLACE from all categories starting with S

Conversion to a single libtool environment.

Approved by: portmgr (kris)

Remove the FreeBSD KEYWORD from all rc.d scripts where it appears.
We have not checked for this KEYWORD for a long time now, so this
is a complete noop, and thus no PORTREVISION bump. Removing it at
this point is mostly for pedantic reasons, and partly to avoid
perpetuating this anachronism by copy and paste to future scripts.

20 vulnerabilities affecting 360 ports have been reported in the past 14 days

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