* M. Stoffers <[email protected]>:
> Yes, you're right. In the mean time, I did get a useful mail program
> :P - I reformatted the attached Mail ;) - Sorry for inconvenience!

:)

> "Patrick Ben Koetter" <[email protected]>:
> > Seriously, please get a mail programm that sends useful formats.
> >
> > p...@rick
> >
> > Mirko Stoffers <[email protected]>:
> >> Hi Patrick,
> >>
> >> hm, I cannot really see the problem with authorization:
> >> My SQL database doesn't contain any authorization information
> >> at all. Or do you mean that a saslauthdb could contain users

There's no such thing as a "saslauthdb". It sounds as if you are mixing the
Cyrus SASL "saslauthd" password verification service and the Cyrus SASL
database "sasldb".

> >> for different purposes (say, FTP server access) who are not

Exactly. A SASL database can contain users for different purposes. It is not
common to do that, but it is possible.

> >> authorized for SOGo? For the latter I would recommend that
> >> the authentication is done by SASL and the authorization by
> >> the PostgreSQL table w/o the password field.
> >>
> >> However, obviously I have to accept that SOGo does not
> >> currently support SASL. So I keep my configuration till SOGo
> >> comes to support it ;)

I wouldn't wait too long. I guess there are other features geared towards end
users that stand in row first. ;)

p...@rick




> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Mirko
> >>
> >> "Patrick Ben Koetter" <[email protected]>:
> >>> Mirko Stoffers :
> >>>
> >>> Hi Patrick, thanks for your reply. Yes, I also thought about
> that. However,
> >>> I'm not sure whether postgres is really a good source for
> authentication. I
> >>> think, postgres is more designed as a relational database than a
> password
> >>> storage, whilst the saslauthdb's only purpose is storing passwords. In
> >>> practice, when I insert the entries into the postgres database
> with "insert
> >>> into ... md5('...') ..." the passwords are shown on the screen
> in clear and
> >>> saved in the history file. That's why I would prefer using a password
> >>> storage (saslauthdb) for passwords. ;) Thanks, Mirko
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