Secure Password Authentication

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Thu Dec 18 12:39:08 EST 2003



Andreas wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 11:26:21AM -0500, Ken Murchison wrote:
> 
>>What kind of errors were you getting?
>>
>>It does work here (where I wrote it), and I believe other's have used it 
>>as well.  You can use it with either the user's password stored in an 
>>auxprop backend (e.g. sasldb2) or by proxying the auth to an NT/2K/Samba 
>>server.
> 
> 
> imtest + ntlm worked just fine, but when using OE I got "user not found" kind of
> messages in cyrus' logs. I then created a certificate and started using
> plain text login with ssl/tls.
> 
> Let me see if I still have the error messages in syslog..
> Ah, found some.
> 
> Using OE (on my home lan):
> Dec  7 21:27:26 mac imapd[14509]: NTLM server step 1 
> Dec  7 21:27:26 mac imapd[14509]: NTLM server step 2 
> Dec  7 21:27:26 mac imapd[14509]: no secret in database
> Dec  7 21:27:26 mac imapd[14509]: badlogin: maestro.lowtech[192.168.1.2] NTLM [SASL(-13): user not found: no secret in database]
> Dec  7 21:27:34 mac imapd[14509]: NTLM server step 1 
> Dec  7 21:27:34 mac imapd[14509]: NTLM server step 2 
> Dec  7 21:27:34 mac imapd[14509]: incorrect NTLM responses
> Dec  7 21:27:34 mac imapd[14509]: badlogin: maestro.lowtech[192.168.1.2] NTLM [SASL(-13): authentication failure: incorrect NTLM responses]
> Dec  7 21:27:40 mac master[14214]: process 14391 exited, status 0

This probably means that the domain that the client was sending didn't 
match up with what the server expected.

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