> Why don't you use Debian packages for cyrus-sasl, cyrus-imapd and postfix? > While not being a Debian user I'm quite sure those packages exist and will > prevent from such mess.
I am only interested in plain password authentication, with encrypted passwords kept in some database (trying mysql). The Debian cyrus-sasl package does not include any way to lookup encrypted passwords in mysql. I had built cyrus-sasl with a patch from <http://frost.ath.cx/software/cyrus-sasl-patches/>. The Debian cyrus-imap built has loads of dependencies. Since I had to built cyrus-sasl, I did the same for cyrus-imapd and just included what was necessary to meet my needs. No matter how I look at it, in order to do SMTP AUTH with encrypted passwords in the user database I still need the above mentioned patch for cyrus-sasl. Also means I still have to built everything from sources, including postfix. Is there a way to have uw-imapd log user passwords in the clear? With that I could collect all my users passwords and store them clear text in the database. Everywhere it says that this is not a good idea. But why? As system administrator I have access to everyones 'secret' emails anyways. Whether or not the passwords are clear text should be irrelevant. Adi --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
