cyrus-imapd 2.2.1 beta - auth problem

[Simon Matter]

> On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Simon Matter wrote:
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>> Another interesting detail is that, if I installed cyrus-sasl-2.1.15 and
>> authentication works, I can downgrade to cyrus-sasl-2.1.10 (and
>> restarting
>> saslauthd of course) and cyrus-imapd keeps authenticating successfully
>> until I restart master.
>
> Since the libraries are already loaded, I don't find this too surprising.
> It also seems to indicate that the problem is somewhere in libsasl itself.

Ah right, make sense.

>
> Of course, I'm curious why you don't just use SASL 2.1.15.  I don't think
> its worth spending time tracking down a bug in older SASL versions just
> to find we've already solved it (something we already know).

Well, since I'm maintaining cyrus-imapd rpms and I didn't want to maintain
my own set of cyrus-sasl rpms. I do it for the older RedHat versions but
wanted to stop it because the newer versions include SASL v2. So, I
thought if it's just a small problem in 2.2.1-BETA, it was better to fix
it there and make it compatible with cyrus-sasl >= 2.1.7 again.

Simon

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