cyrus auth question

Mathieu Arnold mat at mat.cc
Tue Sep 3 12:01:51 EDT 2002



--On mardi 3 septembre 2002 09:58 -0400 Rob Siemborski
<rjs3 at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> 
>> So, there seems to have no way to use pam to do the auth thing if I want
>> to use digests ?
> 
> 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 ?

-- 
Mathieu Arnold




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