User creation - automatic subscriptions

[Ken Murchison]

Ken Murchison wrote:

> Mike Cathey wrote:
> 
>> Ken,
>>
>> On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 09:59, Ken Murchison wrote:
>>
>>> You need to use TLS before PLAIN will be advertised.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks!  That worked.
>>
>> One more question (*I think*).  I added some debugging statements to
>> imtest and it looks like it's sending the normal username (-u;
>> "pointer") when it logs into the IMAP server.   What is it sending to
>> the IMAP server to tell it that you want to authorize (-a) as another
>> user (ie. cyrus)?

Just realized that you have the options backwards:

-a is the user to authenticate as (user whose password you know)

-u is the user to proxy as (behave as if you logged in as this user)


>>
>> I'll start poking through the SASL docs...
> 
> 
> The PLAIN response has the form:
> 
> authzid\0authid\0password
> 


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