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List:       info-cyrus
Subject:    Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation
From:       Mathieu Arnold <mat () mat ! cc>
Date:       2002-09-22 14:18:06
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--On dimanche 22 septembre 2002 15:45 +0200 "Mr. Simix" <simix@datacomm.ch>
wrote:

> Rob Siemborski wrote:
>> On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Tarjei Huse wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> If you do not use saslpasswd2, then Cyrus only uses plaintext methods
>>> for authentication, right?
>> 
>> 
>> No.  You can use a MySQL backend as well to supply the secrets for
>> non-plaintext methods.  The OpenLDAP people also have an auxprop
>> plugin that will get the secerts directly from their datastore, but it
>> only works internal to OpenLDAP.
> 
> Okay, but we can say whenever PAM is involved, then only plain can be
> used, right?

yes, because you cannot be sure to have access to plain text passwords
using pam, and you need plain text passwords to do digests authentications.


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Mathieu Arnold
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