Cyrus IMAP Presentation

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh hmh at debian.org
Mon Sep 23 09:18:26 EDT 2002


Hi GOMBAS!

On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, GOMBAS Gabor wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 02:27:43PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > How does libpam-opie and openssh manage to do challenge-response auth
> > through the PAM layer, then?
> 
> libpam-opie puts the challenge in the text of the password prompt.
> Openssh has nothing to do with it, it only sees the normal PAM
> conversation sequence.

We could do the same for an auxprop-like saslauthd PAM interface. Obviously,
one needs to write the PAM-side support.  So it is not impossible, just
unlikely.

-- 
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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh




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