Murder and Backend Authentication

[Rob Siemborski]

What SASL mechanism are you using between your frontend and backends?

Or rather, what mechanisms are your backends advertising?

-Rob

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Hank Beatty wrote:

> I'm working on getting a Murder setup and I can authenticate and pull mail
> directly from the backend server.
>
> However, when I try to proxy the connection I get this in /var/log/messages
> on the proxy/master:
>
> Jan 31 13:40:35 zeus pop3[5437]: login: SERVER[192.168.247.241] hbeatty
> plaintext
> Jan 31 13:40:35 zeus pop3[5437]: couldn't authenticate to backend server: no
> mechanism available
> Jan 31 13:40:35 zeus pop3[5437]: couldn't authenticate to backend server
>
> I get this in /var/log/imapd.log on the backend server:
>
> Jan 31 13:45:01 draco pop3[32718]: accepted connection
> Jan 31 13:45:01 draco master[32724]: about to exec /usr/cyrus/bin/pop3d
> Jan 31 13:45:01 draco master[32688]: process 32718 exited, status 0
> Jan 31 13:45:01 draco pop3[32724]: executed
>
> With this in mind it would seem that when using the proxy the authentication
> method is different somehow. Is this correct?
>
>
>

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