Passwords containing backslash - problem.

[Dan White]

On 20/07/11 09:46 -0500, Dan White wrote:
>On 20/07/11 10:50 -0300, Lauro Costa G. Borges wrote:
>>>>Does saslauthd handle backslashes ok for the rest of you? Cause it
>>>>doesn't seem to handle it with testsaslauthd or as a Postfix auth daemon.
>>>
>>>I can't reproduce this problem while using the PAM backend. Which saslauthd
>>>backend are you using? If relevant, what sasl configuration is your imap
>>>server using?
>>>
>>>Both of these work for me:
>>>
>>>testsaslauthd -u username -p 'test\1234'
>>>testsaslauthd -u username -p test\\1234
>>>
>>>Where the password is:
>>>
>>>test\1234
>>
>>Saslauthd at the smtp server uses RIMAP as the backend, and the 
>>remote imap server to which it connects (Dovecot) does not use 
>>saslauthd, it uses LDAP. As I said before, this imap server can 
>>understand backslashes in the password, since I successfully 
>>authenticated on it using telnet.
>
>I can reproduce the problem while using the rimap backend.
>
>I've filed the following bug report:
>
>https://bugzilla.cyrusimap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3493

Also, saslauthd has an ldap backend you may want to use, as a work around.
See doc/LDAP_SASLAUTHD in the sasl source for configuration documentation.

-- 
Dan White