saslauthd with rimap + TLS/SSL imap server

Boris Savelev boris.savelev at gmail.com
Thu Feb 13 00:20:26 EST 2014


Thanks for tips!
But this is only workarounds.

My problem is solved with stunnel, but I have another question)
"rimap" couldn't support tls by design or this can be a feature of some
next release?


2014-02-12 18:40 GMT+04:00 Dan White <dwhite at olp.net>:

> On 02/12/14 13:08 +0400, Boris Savelev wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> Today I try to configure saslauthd with MECHANISMS="rimap".
>> I run saslauthd with command:
>> /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a rimap -O mail.local -r -c -m /var/run/saslauthd -n
>> 5
>> I use Dovecot 2 as IMAP server where plain-text auth via unencrypted
>> channel doesn't allowed by default and turning it on is makes security
>> hole. How I could configure saslauthd to use TLS/SSL with rimap?
>>
>> PS:
>> saslauthd -v
>> saslauthd 2.1.25
>> authentication mechanisms: sasldb getpwent kerberos5 pam rimap shadow ldap
>>
>
> The rimap backend does not appear to support TLS, nor SASL (digest-md5)
> authentication towards the IMAP server. stunnel (in client mode) may be a
> work around for you.
>
> --
> Dan White
>



-- 
Boris
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