Client authentication via client certificate on ssl/tls

[Ken Murchison]

Pascal Gienger wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> does anybody on the list already had the idea to use an information of a 
> client certificate for authentication in IMAPD?

This is exactly what the EXTERNAL SASL mechanism is designed for and is 
available in Cyrus.  If the client presents a TLS client cert, Cyrus 
will make the EXTERNAL mechanism available, which essentially means "use 
the credentials presented outside of SASL".  Whether any mainstream 
clients have support for EXTERNAL, I don't know.

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