On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 08:20:59AM +1300, Jason Haar wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 10:36:47AM +0000, Brian Candler wrote:
> > Pretty much, although there is a way to mitigate that: let a different box
> > handle the SASL exchange for you.
> 
> You mean if I compromise the Courier server and reconfigure it to use PLAIN
> passwords, the client will notify the user that a configuration change has
> occured, so that they don't send their password? 
> 
> I don't think so ;-)

Fair point I suppose, although the client has to take some responsibility
for security.

e.g. if when configuring the POP3 account I click "use SASL CRAM-MD5
authentication", then I should get a refusal or at least a warning if the
server does not accept this method.

Regards,

Biran.



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