cyrus auth question

Mathieu Arnold mat at mat.cc
Tue Sep 3 08:55:22 EDT 2002



--On mardi 3 septembre 2002 08:33 -0400 Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com>
wrote:

> Quoting Mathieu Arnold <mat at mat.cc>:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> --On mardi 3 septembre 2002 18:30 +0800 Eugene Chow
>> <xyrik at ecentrenet.com> wrote:
>> 
>> >> I use saslauthd with pam, and all works well with plain text password,
>> >> but, for digested passwords, cyrus (or sasl) keeps trying to use
>> sasldb2.
>> >> How can I tell them to use saslauthd and not sasldb ?
>> > 
>> > If you wish you make use of digest passwords, then saslauthd can't do
>> > the job. You've gotta use auxprop for the sasl_pwcheck_method
>> > parameter. If you don't wish to use digest passwords at all, then add
>> > in the parameter sasl_mech_list: plain to imapd.conf. 
>> 
>> But, I believed that saslauthd was supposed to replace pwcheck, am I
>> wrong ?
> 
> pwcheck only supported plaintext mechanisms.  The only way to have 
> non-plaintext mechanisms is to use sasldb/auxprop.

So, there seems to have no way to use pam to do the auth thing if I want to
use digests ?

-- 
Mathieu Arnold




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