Failing to authenticate on the frontends

[Michael Loftis]

--On October 5, 2006 11:42:36 AM +0100 Jesus Roncero <jesus at mxtelecom.com> 
wrote:


> Umm, I got it to work using DIGEST-MD5, but apparently, all
> communications are encrypted after the authentication. Is there a way in
> which all the communications between the frontends and the backends are
> *not* encrypted, except, probably, the authentication dialog?
> I guess that's what CRAM-MD5 is for, but the frontend refuses to talk to
> the backend if it is presented with CRAM-MD5 only. Is there any way to do
> this or I am doing something really wrong? :)


See earlier in this thread.  It's not at all possible in stock Cyrus.  You 
have to patch it to allow that.  I've got one for older versions of cyrus, 
2.1.17 ish, but they'll need cleanup.  Thanks to Henrique de Moraes Holscuh 
who provided me with them.

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