IMAPD Authentication

[Rob Siemborski]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Mike's List wrote:

> How/what/where is the default authentication protocol for saslauthd?
> and where is it located?  I attempted to execute "saslauthd -a sasldb"
> but it seems that's not what saslauthd wanted.

There is no default.  Running saslauthd with no arguments should list the
mechanisms that are built into your version.

> In addition, what is the more popular protocol for web-based e-mail
> via Squirrelmail, Cyrus IMAPD and SASL?  Is it OpenLDAP, PAM, shadow
> or sasldb? (is there such a thing sasldb?)

There is, but it was experimental and not recommended for use (use
sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop).

-Rob

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