[issue20352] Add support for AUTH command to poplib

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray added the comment:

imaplib has an API for handling that kind of thing.  Maybe we can model the 
poplib support off of that API.  It would be nice to be consistent, assuming it 
in fact makes sense for poplib as well.

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[issue20352] Add support for AUTH command to poplib

[Daniël van Eeden]

Daniël van Eeden added the comment:

As far as I understood the RFC:

A client should send CAPA and check if there is a SASL tag in the response 
(e.g. "SASL PLAIN").

===
+OK Dovecot ready.
AUTH PLAIN base64_encoded_info
+OK Logged in.
LIST
===
I've replace the base64 encoded authentication info with 'base64_encoded_info'

For other authentication mechanisms the response can be longer (it may contain 
a challenge) and the request may only contain the mechanim.

I don't have a server which supports anything else than AUTH PLAIN, so I could 
verify/test this.

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keywords: +patch
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file33651/poplib_auth.patch

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[issue20352] Add support for AUTH command to poplib

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray added the comment:

This is basically rfc 5034 support?  Sounds like a good idea.

I'm going to mark this issue as 'easy' because it isn't a whole lot of code, 
but for anyone who wants to tackle it, know that understanding the RFC and 
getting it *right* is not necessarily trivial, because: rfc :)

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keywords: +easy
nosy: +barry, r.david.murray
stage:  -> needs patch
type:  -> enhancement
versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 2.7

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[issue20352] Add support for AUTH command to poplib

[Daniël van Eeden]

New submission from Daniël van Eeden:

I use 'AUTH PLAIN ' to login to a POP3 server with a proxy user. I 
can't use 'pass_()' as I need to supply a admin user and the user to proxy into.

class adminpopserver(poplib.POP3):
def auth(self, method, secret):
return self._shortcmd('AUTH %s %s' % (method, secret))

secret = "{user}\0{adminuser}\0{password}".format(
user=user, 
adminuser=adminuser, 
password=password)
secret = secret.encode('base64').strip('\n')

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 208837
nosy: dveeden
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Add support for AUTH command to poplib
versions: Python 2.7

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