Authentication (Total Confusion)

[Mike's List]

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.


- Mike

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