how to secure authentication ?

[Dmitriy Kirhlarov]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 11:37:29AM +0530, JOYDEEP wrote:

> SSL encryption is working now :-)
> the next step of security is securing the authentication. I am using
> PLAIN and LOGIN. is it secure ?
> How to securely authenticate ?
> please enlighten me ?
> 
> here is my /etc/imapd.conf
> -------------------------------------------
> configdirectory: /var/lib/imap
> partition-default: /var/spool/imap
> sievedir: /var/lib/sieve
> 
> admins: cyrus
> allowplaintext: yes
> sasl_minimum_layer: 0

sasl_minimum_layer 128

Try this.

By.
Dmitriy