Re: Cyrus-IMAP, saslauthd, Problems with DIGEST/CRAM-MD5

From: Eric Renfro (no email)
Date: Tue Feb 21 2006 - 06:22:18 EST

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    On Tuesday 21 February 2006 03:00, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:
    > --On 20. Februar 2006 22:08:04 -0600 Eric Renfro <> wrote:
    > > Hello. I'm having a problem with Cyrus-IMAPD 2.2.12 with Cyrus-SASL
    > > 2.1.19's saslauthd.
    > >
    > > When I login using the LOGIN method, I see saslauthd doing it's lookup,
    > > and OpenLDAP logs show it as well, and it's all successfull. However,
    > > when trying to do a PLAIN, DIGEST-MD5, or CRAM-MD5 auth to the IMAP
    > > server, it fails. cyrus/imapd shows up in the logs, but saslauthd does
    > > not.
    >
    > You can't use DIGEST-MD5 or CRAM-MD5 with saslauthd. I use sasldb myself,
    > so I'm no expert on the other mechanisms, but I think the ldap auxprop
    > works with challenge-response mechanisms. I'm not sure why PLAIN would
    > fail, though.
    >
    > Cheers, Sebastian Hagedorn

    Ahh, I just recently read up about that. Kinda makes sense, at least in that
    sense. Kinda makes me wonder. What would be the difference between using ldap
    and pam in saslauthd, in that case. :)
    PAM would be more capable of different authentication methods, while ldap is
    strictly just ldap.

    -- 
    Eric Renfro
    ===
    You had some happiness once, but your parents moved away, and you had to
    leave it behind.
    
    


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