SASL domains and usernames and authentication

[Prentice Bisbal]

Thanks for the reply. I could write shell script to do it, too, but I 
was hoping for a more "proper" solution.

Prentice


William K. Hardeman wrote:
> 
> --On Wednesday, 10 March, 2004 11:44 -0500 Prentice Bisbal 
> <prentice at rcsb.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> 
>> The problem is when I try to authenticate to the IMAP server using
>> Mozilla, it sends the user name as username at mailserver.domain.tld.
>> That username is not in the sasldb, so then the user cannot authenticate.
>>
>> Is there anyway to fix this on the server side? I don't know if it can be
>> fixed in Mozilla, and even if it could be, I can't expect the users to
>> know how to reconfigure Mozilla.
> 
> 
> I fixed this by writing a little shell script that I use to actually add 
> my users to my sasldb2. It adds both the domain.tld that is specified on 
> the command line and also adds a mail.domain.tld entry, as well. I also 
> use this script to change passwords, when that's required, so that I 
> don't have to manually do it for each entry.
> 
> I can send the script to you if you would like, but it's a pretty simple 
> little hack job. :-)
> 
> Will
> 
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Prentice Bisbal
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Protein Data Bank
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