multiple authentication methods?

Patrick Radtke phr2101 at columbia.edu
Thu Aug 25 14:15:13 EDT 2005


Have you tried

sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
sasl_mech_list: PLAIN GSSAPI

Our pine users connect useing a Kerb5 ticket.

Our other users (like Apple Mail) send us a username/password over a  
secure connection.
They are then validated by saslauthd.

-Patrick


On Aug 25, 2005, at 12:42 PM, Tim Strobell ((Contractor)) wrote:

>>> We need to support Kerberos credentials directly from the  
>>> clients; pam_krb5
>>> only proxies the username and passwords to the KDC for  
>>> authentication.
>>>
>>
>> I use gssapi authentication with Mutt against Cyrus using the actual
>> Kerberos credentials, so it would seem to work.
>>
>
> Of course -- but can Cyrus be configured to support _both_ Kerberos
> (credentials authenticated via GSSAPI) and LDAP (via saslauthd)?   
> Some users
> will use Kerberos credentials, others may use username/password  
> which we will
> look up in LDAP.  (It is not necessarily the case that all users  
> will have
> corresponding Kerberos credentials, else pam_krb5 would be  
> appropriate.)
>
> I suspect the answer is no, but I need independent verification.
>
> -Tim
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