[KLUG Members] Cyrus IMAP and SASL hell

[Peter Buxton]

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 02:45:16PM -0400, Adam Williams wrote:

> >Okay, so exactly HOW does SASL work? 
> 
> Thats complicated.
> 
> >Or not, as the case may be?
> 
> That may even be more complicated.

See, I figured that out myself.

> SASL is an API and model for network authentication.  SASL itself is
> nothing more.  There are various modules (similair but not equivalent to
> PAM modules) for various types of authentication (Kerberos, CRAM,
> AUXPROP, etc...).
> 
> What module are you trying to use?  What do you want to authenticate
> against?
> 
> Remember that SASL (unlike PAM/NSS) has no inherent relationship with
> the OS.  i.e. a SASL user george has no relationship to PAM/NSS user
> george unless one is explicitly established.

That's fine by me, I just want to enter my name and my saslpasswd2
password in imtest and not have it gag a maggot:


AAAAAAAAAAAAGH!  I did `saslpasswd2 -c peter@localhost ` and it WORKED!
Those BASTARDS! ARGH! I specifically noted my realm as `-r
killdevil.org` for imtest! ARGH!

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