mupdate and SASL

[Jim Levie]

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 13:47, Prentice Bisbal wrote:
> I'm having problems trying to authenticate to mupdate using sasl. I've 
> been trying to authenticate using mupdatetest, but keep getting the 
> following error:
> 
> Feb 18 14:33:48 pdb-mail-1 mupdate[21606]: Password verification failed
> Feb 18 14:33:51 pdb-mail-1 mupdate[21606]: badlogin: 
> localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] PLAIN SASL(-13): user not found: 
> Password verification failed
> 
> My mupdate username is mupdate, my domain/realm is rcsb.rutgers.edu. 
> I've tried mupdatetest w/all of the following
> 
> mupdatetest -u mupdate -a mupdate -r rcsb.rutgers.edu
> mupdatetest -u mupdate -r rcsb.rutgers.edu
> mupdatetest -u mupdate at rcsb.rutgers.edu
> 
> My salsdb entry for this user is
> mupdate at rcsb.rutgers.edu: userPassword
> 
I haven't looked at the code to see why, but I've just tried specifying
an invalid realm, e.g.:

mupdatetest -p 3905 -u dunno -a dunno -r dufus.tld mupdate.srv.tld

and it worked just as if I had not specified a realm. So it looks to me
like the realm isn't being used at all. On my mupdate server I found
that the mupdate user needed to be in sasldb like:

dunno at mupdate.srv.tld: userPassword

with the realm being the hostname of the mupdate server for it to work.
I haven't tested, but I suspect that if you set "servername" in
imapd.conf on the mupdate server you'd need that realm when creating the
sasldb account for the mupdate user.

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   Jim Levie                                 email:jim at entrophy-free.net



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