How to allow mech other than plain?

[Rob Siemborski]

On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Jim Worke wrote:

> Currently, I'm using cyrus-imapd-2.1.9 and cyrus-sasl-2.1.7.  I've installed
> cyrus-sasl-plain and cyrus-sasl-md5 RPM.  When I use plain text
> authentication, it goes to saslauthd to PAM.  But when I set the client to
> use CRAM-MD5, the log shows that it's looking for /etc/sasldb2.  Since I'm
> using PAM, I'm not using /etc/sasldb2.

You need to use auxprop plugins (e.g. SASLdb), not saslauthd, to do
non-plaintext mechanisms.

-Rob

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