cyrus auth question

[Rob Siemborski]

On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Mathieu Arnold wrote:

> > That is correct.  PAM (and the other saslauthd mechs) can only verify a
> > plaintext password.  Since plaintext passwords aren't available from the
> > challenge-response mechanisms (DIGEST, CRAM), you can't verify them, and
> > instead need to verify the response.
>
> So, after a bit of reading, I'll have to find a auxprop plugin using
> postgresql as I wanted use pam to auth against.
> Am I right ?

If postgresql is your source of plaintext passwords, then yes, you will
need an auxprop plugin to do lookups in it.

I don't believe there are any postgresql auxprop plugins currently.

-Rob

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