SASL domains and usernames and authentication

[William K. Hardeman]

--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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