Horde/IMP authentication to Cyrus via client certificates?

[Edward Rudd]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:18:07 -0700, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:

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> Any thoughts on how difficult it would be to get Cyrus IMAP to accept a 
> client certificate, validate it and automatically "log in" the user once 
> that is done? I'll happily contribute the code back to CMU if I get it 
> working, but I though I'd ask the gurus for their opinions before I 
> tried to tackle it :-)

This is really a Cyrus-SASL topic. as Cyrus IMAP doesn't really care how
the user gets authenticated, only that the SASL layer authenticates the
users.  So client certificate authentication would have to be added as a
SASL authentication module.

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