[POLL] Defaulting allowplaintext to disabled

[Ken Murchison]

Martin Konold wrote:
> Am Tuesday 27 March 2007 schrieb Ken Murchison:
> 
> Hi Ken,
> 
>> control both the protocol-specific plaintext login commands (IMAP,
>> LOGIN, POP3 USER/PASS, NNTP AUTHINFO USER/PASS), and the plaintext SASL
>> mechanisms (PLAIN, LOGIN). 
> 
> Yes, this is a good idea.
> 
>> Since sending passwords in the clear sucks, and I would like to think
>> that most reasonable admins disable this option anyways, would anyone
>> have a major gripe if we change the allowplaintext option to default to
>> disabled in the 2.3.9 release?
> 
> I think this is absolutly sane and actually what todays administrators expect.
> 
>> Obviously, we will document this change 
>> prominently in the release notes.
>>
>> https://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/show_bug.cgi?id=2922
> 
> What about adding an option to limit the plaintext login commands to 
> IPs/IP-Range? For all useful purposes I can imagine this would be really 
> helpful.

I don't want to make this one option too complicated.  What you propose 
can be accomplished by using proper service lines in cyrus.conf.  You 
can specify a particular hostname/IP in the 'listen' parameter, and you 
can either use a special imapd.conf file allowing plaintext, or you can 
use the '-p 2' command line option.


-- 
Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer
Carnegie Mellon University