Murder and Backend Authentication

Rob Siemborski rjs3 at andrew.cmu.edu
Fri Jan 31 16:35:43 EST 2003


On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Ken Murchison wrote:

> Like Rob said, just PLAIN, which will require you to use STARTTLS, which
> is only in 2.2.  That being said, since you will likely only have one or
> two proxy admins, you could just put them in sasldb2 and use DIGEST-MD5.

This may break some clients, since they may then try to authenticate using
DIGEST-MD5 to the backend (Say, via a referral), and then get upset when
they can't.

You really want a uniform authentication enviornment for the aggregator.

-Rob

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