Problems running CyrAdm

Patrick Welche prlw1 at newn.cam.ac.uk
Thu Apr 17 10:59:42 EDT 2003


On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 07:46:17AM +0200, Nikola Milutinovic wrote:
...
> QUESTIONS
> ---------
> 
> While I can accept that maybe Perl 5.8.0-MT is buggy (I've ran all the 
> tests, but I cannot guarantee),

You can take perl out of the list of possibilities by using imtest instead
of cyradm...

> I stay puzzled with the mechanisms used. Why 
> does it use OTP and NTLM, instead of PLAIN (or one of the MD5s, if it wants 
> to be really secure). IMAP is using SASLDB. Method PLAIN works from telnet.

... so then you can check which mechanisms are used, in other words check
the syntax of /etc/imapd.conf, using imtest, possibly with the
[ -m mechanism ] flag.

Cheers,

Patrick




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