On 2024-12-21 14:54, Michael Tokarev via Postfix-users wrote:
> 
> cleartext password (storage) is required for many SASL mechanisms over
> than PLAIN.  And none of these mechanisms work with -a pam or with
[...]
> However, there are other mechanisms being developed, for example OAUTH2,

What's worth mentioning is that PLAIN/LOGIN also requires cleartext
password storage - on the client side.

> I'm not sure I understand the "LDAP service as a password oracle" choice, -
> who does the SASL verification in there?

For LDAP backend there are two possible authentication flows:

1. LDAP server _binding_ directly with user-provided credentials - if
that succeed, then the user is authenticated,

2. binding to LDAP server with SASL-provider credentials (or
anonymously) and then _querying_ for a user with provided credentials.
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