LMTP STARTTLS and certificates

Matt Bernstein mb/cyrus at dcs.qmul.ac.uk
Wed Sep 11 13:30:23 EDT 2002


At 11:38 -0400 Ken Murchison wrote:

>Matt Bernstein wrote:
>> >> So.. I can't use AUTH EXTERNAL.. what am I missing?
>> >
>> >I'm by no means an expert, but I _think_ what you need is a cert with an
>> >authid as the CN.  lmtpd is looking for a user to authenticate, not a
>> >client machine.  You need a cert like you would use for an email client
>> >like Netscape or Outlook.
>>
>> OK.. so "CN=postman" in my case? Will try..
>
>You _should_ be able to use any authid as long as you make them an
>lmtp_admin.
 ^^^^^^^^^^

What's one of those? I don't find it in *.[ch] or doc/ in the source
tree, and Google can't find it.

I made a postman.pem but that doesn't work either..

Sorry!

Matt





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