Perdition Vulnerability Questions & Help

[jholder]

This thread is for questions about the ZCS Vulnerability alert posted here.

If you need help or have any questions, please keep them on this thread for easy discovery.

Thanks
john

[Vladimir]

After installing the perdition patch on my two server cluster tryint to restart perdition prompts me for a password for each service. Whats up with that????

[Vladimir]

Nevermind. I figured it out. Turns out you really do need to link those directories as the instrunctions say. Doh.

[jholder]

Heh-
No worries. When I was first testing the patch, I did the same exact thing

[deckard]

If we are using IMAP services, can we then assume we're using Perdition? Or is Perdition used for something else when accessing the IMAP server? In other words, is there an IMAP server at all in Zimbra, or does Perdition provide that functionality?

[jholder]

Originally Posted by deckard

If we are using IMAP services, can we then assume we're using Perdition? Or is Perdition used for something else when accessing the IMAP server? In other words, is there an IMAP server at all in Zimbra, or does Perdition provide that functionality?

Hi Deckard-
Perdition is not the same thing as the IMAP server. Perdition is an IMAP/POP3 proxy. You run it on the server that's exposed to the internet, and it sends the requests to the *real* IMAP server.

In general, only installs that have multi-node setups use perdition.