global admin without defaultdomain?

Rob Siemborski rjs3 at andrew.cmu.edu
Tue Dec 30 12:46:05 EST 2003


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.

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

-Rob

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