cyrus auth question

[Ken Murchison]

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.

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