On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:20:52 -0400 (EDT) Wietse Venema articulated: > Sahil Tandon: > > On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 18:45:47 -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: > > > > > Peter: > > > > The SASL_README doc has a section about doing a telnet test of > > > > a PLAIN SASL authentication. There are some methods suggested > > > > for generating the base64 hash required to do the > > > > authentication, Of those two methods one requires downloading > > > > a special utility to generate the auth string and the other > > > > requires installing a perl module. I have a third suggestion: > > > > > > > > echo -ne '\000username\000password' | openssl base64 > > > > > > > > This method is relatively easy to do, and will work with the > > > > programs that are already readily available on most systems. I > > > > think it would be good to add it to the docs. > > > > > > This does not work for me. If you make a suggestion, be sure > > > to indicate what platform and shell this applies to. > > > > Appears to work in bash and zsh; not in (t)csh. I quickly tested on > > FreeBSD and Darwin. Likely related to handling of null byte/char. > > I'm away from home, so I can't quickly fire up a ksh box. It certainly > does not work with FreeBSD8 /bin/sh. > > In Postfix documentation, I try to avoid examples that are limited > to one shell family, or examples that require mode text to describe > where it doe/not work than the example itself.
Using FreeBSD-8.2 with GNU bash, version 4.1.10(1)-release (amd64-portbld-freebsd8.2) as the default shell. echo -ne '\000username\000password' | openssl base64 AHVzZXJuYW1lAHBhc3N3b3Jk -- Jerry ✌ postfix-u...@seibercom.net _____________________________________________________________________ TO REPORT A PROBLEM see http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail TO (UN)SUBSCRIBE see http://www.postfix.org/lists.html
