sasl questions

Rob Siemborski rjs3 at andrew.cmu.edu
Mon Nov 11 16:18:33 EST 2002


On 11 Nov 2002, Matt Bradshaw wrote:

> this misconfiguration isn't usually a problem.  most clients seem to
> ignore the sasl extentions to the imap protocol (just use '0 LOGIN
> username password') and/or don't support OTP.  however, cyradm does not
> work.  it attempts to use the OTP mech which isn't supported.
>
> how can i fix this?
>
> thanks for your time.

sasl_mech_list: plain

in imapd.conf

Note, however, that cyradm does not support TLS, and will just spew the
password in the clear over the network.

It may be worthwhile to just set up your administrative users to have
entries in sasldb.

-Rob

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