Patch to set plaintext refusal string to plaintextloginalert (Bug 3247)

[Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems)]

Michael Bacon wrote:
> This week, we finally dragged UNC into the 21st century and disabled 
> unencrypted plaintext logins.  In so doing, we found the default message 
> for rejecting unencrypted LOGIN attempts, "Login only available under a 
> layer," to be confusing to our users.
> 
> This patch just overloads "plaintextloginalert" to also be the reject 
> message if allowplaintext is set to 0.  It is otherwise only used if 
> allowplaintext is set to 1.
> 
> This is a patch to the 2.3.16 codebase, and is entered in Bugzilla as 3247.
> 

I would obfuscate the original message less, by saying something like:

"Plaintext login not allowed, by policy, without added security layer"

As opposed to the message that is in there now. Would that make sense?

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Jeroen van Meeuwen
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