On Sun 11 Nov 2007, Jürgen Herz wrote: > On 2007-11-11 01:13, Bjørn T Johansen wrote: > > I have enabled SSL support for my dovecot installation but if I enable > > secure authentication in my MUA, I get an error from dovecot telling me > > that this is not supported.. > > > > Is this because dovecot does not support this or am I missing some > > config? > > Might be. But note that with "secure authentication" it might mean > CRAM-MD5, DIGEST-MD5, Kerberos a.s.o. that are no simple plain text or > just Base64 coding mechanisms. SSL on the other hand is a way to make a > secure *connection*. > So make sure some of the above mechanisms are enabled in your dovecot > installation as well.
Apologies for a very ignorant question, but I am puzzled by authentication generally in Linux. Eg does one have to choose between CRAM-MDS, etc. Could I just ignore them all if I use SSL? Is there a clear and simple document on authentication in Linux?
