Preserving flags, and their global nature

[Ian McDonald]

Unfortunately for me, I think that my client (the Mail::IMAPClient perl
module) only supports LOGIN.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Siemborski" <rjs3 at andrew.cmu.edu>
To: "Ian McDonald" <ian at londontown.com>
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: Preserving flags, and their global nature


> On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Ian McDonald wrote:
>
> > So central is this requirement to my helpdesk application, that I'm
> > considering storing all the passwords in plain text in order to do just
that
> > :( :( :(.
>
> Administrative users can authorize as any user they want without needing
> the user's password (sort of like root can su to whatever userid it
> wants).
>
> You just need a SASL mechanism that supports authorization (basically, all
> of them except LOGIN and CRAM-MD5).
>
> -Rob
>