Re: [Dovecot] Testing EXTERNAL AUTHENTICATION

2010-03-17 Thread Stephen Feyrer
Hi. It works, I'm in! Authentication mechanism set to External and five colons after {PLAIN} the command "a AUTHENTICATE EXTERNAL =" worked. It was brute force that did the trick, after reading as much as I could find about /etc/passwd file formats I was still none the wiser. passwd file

Re: [Dovecot] Testing EXTERNAL AUTHENTICATION

2010-03-16 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 17.3.2010, at 1.09, Stephen Feyrer wrote: > Hi. > > I tried: > > Stephen:{EXTERNAL}nopassword=y {EXTERNAL} is never going to work anywhere, because there's no such password scheme. > > and > > Stephen:{PLAIN}nopassword=y This is the wrong format. It's more like: Stephen:{PLAIN}

Re: [Dovecot] Testing EXTERNAL AUTHENTICATION

2010-03-16 Thread Stephen Feyrer
Hi. I tried: Stephen:{EXTERNAL}nopassword=y and Stephen:{PLAIN}nopassword=y Both with the same result below. -- Thanks, Stephen Feyrer. On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:47:45 -, Timo Sirainen wrote: And you also tested the external with the {PLAIN} too, right? Well, maybe it also wants nopas

Re: [Dovecot] Testing EXTERNAL AUTHENTICATION

2010-03-16 Thread Timo Sirainen
And you also tested the external with the {PLAIN} too, right? Well, maybe it also wants nopassword=y extra field. See http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/PasswdFile how to add it. Maybe I should add {ANY} or something that makes "accept any password" easy.. On 17.3.2010, at 0.41, Stephen Feyre

Re: [Dovecot] Testing EXTERNAL AUTHENTICATION

2010-03-16 Thread Stephen Feyrer
Hi. It didn't work. I tried first with {EXTERNAL} and then with {PLAIN} the result below was the same in both cases. --- * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE AUTH=EXTERNAL] Dovecot ready. a LOGIN username-from-cert "" a NO [ALERT] Unsupported authenticatio

Re: [Dovecot] Testing EXTERNAL AUTHENTICATION

2010-03-16 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 17.3.2010, at 0.04, Stephen Feyrer wrote: > The tests using SASL and SASL-IR in Thunderbird both fail to authenticate. I > have tried using openssl s_client with the same result. I've run the auth > command in three ways just to be sure I got the second example right. I even > checked to

Re: [Dovecot] Testing EXTERNAL AUTHENTICATION

2010-03-16 Thread Stephen Feyrer
Hi. The tests using SASL and SASL-IR in Thunderbird both fail to authenticate. I have tried using openssl s_client with the same result. I've run the auth command in three ways just to be sure I got the second example right. I even checked to make sure I've spelt my name right and the

Re: [Dovecot] Testing EXTERNAL AUTHENTICATION

2010-03-16 Thread Stephen Feyrer
Hi. Thanks. I am guessing then I can still play with it through openssl s_client. -- with gratitude Stephen On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:03:38 -, Timo Sirainen wrote: On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 18:01 +, Stephen Feyrer wrote: How can I use SASL-IR with dovecot? It's client that uses it by

Re: [Dovecot] Testing EXTERNAL AUTHENTICATION

2010-03-16 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 18:01 +, Stephen Feyrer wrote: > How can I use SASL-IR with dovecot? It's client that uses it by sending: AUTHENTICATE EXTERNAL = instead of: AUTHENTICATE EXTERNAL = so nothing really you can do about it.. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed mes

Re: [Dovecot] Testing EXTERNAL AUTHENTICATION

2010-03-16 Thread Stephen Feyrer
Hi. I am sorry, I didn't understand what is going on. I knew that David Bienvenu had emailed you but I thought I'd done something to break Dovecot in some other way. Again I'm sorry. How can I use SASL-IR with dovecot? -- If you think education is expensive, have you tried costing ignor

Re: [Dovecot] Testing EXTERNAL AUTHENTICATION

2010-03-16 Thread Michael M. Slusarz
Quoting Stephen Feyrer : Hi. I'm trying to test EXTERNAL AUTHENTICATION in Dovecot. To do this I first configured Thunderbird and Opera to use my server, neither of them were successful. As a result I contacted both organisations to enquire if they supported EXTERNAL AUTHENTICATION in t

Re: [Dovecot] Testing EXTERNAL AUTHENTICATION

2010-03-16 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 16:57 +, Stephen Feyrer wrote: > I'm trying to test EXTERNAL AUTHENTICATION in Dovecot. To do this I first > configured Thunderbird and Opera to use my server, neither of them were > successful. As a result I contacted both organisations to enquire if they > suppo

[Dovecot] Testing EXTERNAL AUTHENTICATION

2010-03-16 Thread Stephen Feyrer
Hi. I'm trying to test EXTERNAL AUTHENTICATION in Dovecot. To do this I first configured Thunderbird and Opera to use my server, neither of them were successful. As a result I contacted both organisations to enquire if they supported EXTERNAL AUTHENTICATION in their products. Thunderbird