Kenneth Murchison writes:
>
>I don't know about imspd, but for imapd run it with '-p 2' (or higher). 
>Check imapd(8) for details.

And here I was reading the source looking for a way, and RTFM would
have done it.  However, I wouldn't have guessed that from the man page:

OPTIONS
     -p ssf
          Tell imapd that  an  external  layer  exists.   An  SSF
          (security strength factor) of 1 means an integrity pro-
          tection layer exists.  Any higher SSF implies some form
          of privacy protection.

Now, my real problem is that I'm using a php-based web client that
uses imap-2000a c-client to connect to the Cyrus IMAP (and IMSP)
servers.  Both run on the same host, so network security is not an
issue.  C-client is supposed to authenticate with either CRAM-MD5
or LOGIN, but it seems only to use CRAM-MD5.  I suspect that this is
because the servers don't advertize LOGIN.  I'm using the
auto_transition feature of SASL to populate the CRAM-MD5 database
from plaintext passwords.  This means that users can login via the
php-based web client until they have done one plaintext login by
some other method.  The result is mass confusion.  I need a way out
of this mess without degrading security too much.  Any suggestions?


-- 
-Gary Mills-    -Unix Support-    -U of M Academic Computing and Networking-

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