Cyrus + Ldap + sasl question

[Dmitriy Kirhlarov]

Sergio Belkin wrote:
> I have a server running with Centos 5.1  and:
> 
> Cyrus: Lan POP and IMAP server  both with SSL and plain and login mechanisms
> 
> LDAP with SSL + SASL
> 
> User passwords in LDAP are encrypted.
> 
> Everything works fine. But I'd want to reduce overhead due SSL and
> change to Cyrus with md5 mechanism (or another nonplain mechanism) Can
> I do that? Please bear in mind, that I don't want to use
> non-encrypyted passwords on LDAP.

cram-md5 and digest-md5 need unencrypted password on client and server side.

kerberos mechanism can help you, but I don't know MUA with kerberos support.

WBR
Dmitriy