cyrus auth question

[Rob Siemborski]

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.

-Rob

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