multiple authentication methods?

Tim Strobell (Contractor) timothy.strobell at nrl.navy.mil
Wed Aug 24 19:27:02 EDT 2005


 > > Can Cyrus support multiple authentication methods? (Although SASL
 > > provides many options, it appears that IMAP/POP supports only one.)
 > > We would like to provide authentication via both Kerberos 5 (GSSAPI) and
 > > LDAP (via saslauthd); users may choose whichever method is most
 > > convenient for them.
 > 
 > I do this myself using PAM and stacking pam_krb5 and pam_ldap.

We need to support Kerberos credentials directly from the clients; pam_krb5
only proxies the username and passwords to the KDC for authentication.

-Tim

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