Daniel Yu wrote:
>
> It's said so. However, here is what I discovered. Even I didn't enable
> login when I compile SASL library, I still could use --auth login for
> cyradm. Furthermore, it returns different result when I use --auth plain
> versus --auth login. Here is what I got.
>
> cyradm --user cyrus --auth plain localhost
> Password:
> IMAP Password:
> localhost>
>
> cyradm --user cyrus --auth login localhost
> IMAP Password:
> localhost>
>
> Both approaches work, but plain asks me the same password for one more
> time. I don't know the reason either.
In the first example, PLAIN auth is most likely failing because it isn't
advertised by the server unless protected by a security layer
(SSL/TLS). It then falls back to trying the IMAP LOGIN command.
See my other post in this thread regarding the difference between the
AUTH=LOGIN and IMAP LOGIN.
Ken
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Matter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 3:43 AM
> To: Daniel Yu
> Cc: 'Justin Wood'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: cyradm authentication
>
> Daniel Yu schrieb:
> >
> > Try cyradm --user mailadmin --auth login localhost or cyradm --user
> > mailadmin --auth plain localhost
>
> Authtype LOGIN is not supported according to the FAQ and it seems that
> whenever LOGIN works, it also works with PLAIN. Is it the same in the
> end?
>
> Simon
>
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Justin Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 5:45 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: cyradm authentication
> >
> > I just blew away my 2.0.16 install and replaced it with 2.1.1. I am
> > using saslauthd with pam to authenticate, and have it working fine for
>
> > imapd and timsieved. However, I can't authenticate to cyradm. I get
> > the following in syslog:
> >
> > Feb 11 15:36:20 fs1 imapd[4913]: badlogin:
> > fs1.p.flipdog.com[10.69.2.71] plaintext cyradm SASL(-13):
> > authentication failure: checkpass failed
> >
> > My pam is configured to use ldap to authenticate, and I see in my ldap
>
> > logs that it's finding the user cyradm just fine. Am I missing
> > something simple here? Has anyone else had this problem?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Justin.
> > --
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > Justin Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Systems Administrator
> > FlipDog.com http://www.flipdog.com/
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
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