global admin without defaultdomain?

Igor Brezac igor at ipass.net
Tue Dec 30 13:01:13 EST 2003


On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Rob Siemborski wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Igor Brezac wrote:
>
> > I think I found what is causing the problem or at least unpredicteble
> > behavior.  %r will have a value regardless of whether an application
> > (imapd in this case) passes the realm to the auxprop.  saslauthd auths do
> > not work this way.  This is also somewhat related to bug #2326.  Why does
> > serverFQDN need to be used to realm when user_realm is not available?
>
> I think this is mostly for backwards compatibility with saslauthd in early
> SASLv2 versions.  Also, DIGEST (atleast) needs a source for the realm.

Can we make this an option?

> Our realm support in saslauthd has never been well tested and is likely
> inconsistant with lots of things (including itself).

I do not know about other saslauthd auth mechs, but ldap mech should
handle realms properly.  I know that pam is broken.

-- 
Igor




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