Authentication (Total Confusion)

[Rob Siemborski]

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Mike's List wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Andreas wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 10:01:15AM -0600, Mike's List wrote:
> > > I modified imapd.conf with the auxprop, reload imapd, make sure saslauthd
> > > is not running.  I make certain the user is listed with the command
> > > sasldblistusers2 (create by saslpasswd2) and the entry is there.  But I
> > > can't still authenticate via Squirrelmail or using imtest (keeps getting
> > > failure: SASL initialization).
> >
> > If you are using /etc/sasldb2 you also need to make sure the services that
> > authenticate you can read that file.
>
> Yes, the file is readable by everyone.
>
> > SASL can be confusing at the beginning, it takes time, don't worry :)
>
> I'm just looking for some good docs that explain the authentication process
> a bit more clearly.

doc/components.html should be a pretty good introduction to how all the
pieces fit together.

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