Passwords containing backslash - problem.

[Dan White]

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

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Dan White