Re: [Dovecot] SSL Certificate Authentication

2008-12-18 Thread Andrey Panin
On 353, 12 18, 2008 at 01:13:27PM +0100, Thomas Siebert wrote: > What you really want is the "AUTH EXTERNAL" authentication mechanism. This > would authenticate your users based on the used certificate. Unfortunately, > this mechanism is not supported in dovecot as well as in most clients. > Courie

Re: [Dovecot] SSL Certificate Authentication

2008-12-18 Thread Thomas Siebert
What you really want is the "AUTH EXTERNAL" authentication mechanism. This would authenticate your users based on the used certificate. Unfortunately, this mechanism is not supported in dovecot as well as in most clients. Courier supports it since some months if you really need it. There's no way

Re: [Dovecot] SSL Certificate Authentication

2008-12-18 Thread Charles Marcus
On 12/17/2008, Anthony Davies (anthony.dav...@phoenixphire.org) wrote: > Sorry, my statement wasnt clear. I want/have to be prompted for the > passphrase on my certificate, its the password to check against my > system authentication mechanism I want to disable, ie /etc/shadow. I > want certificate

Re: [Dovecot] SSL Certificate Authentication

2008-12-17 Thread Anthony Davies
Hi Charles, Sorry, my statement wasnt clear. I want/have to be prompted for the passphrase on my certificate, its the password to check against my system authentication mechanism I want to disable, ie /etc/shadow. I want certificate only authentication where as at present it is certificate and sys

Re: [Dovecot] SSL Certificate Authentication

2008-12-17 Thread Charles Marcus
On 12/17/2008, Anthony Davies (anthony.dav...@phoenixphire.org) wrote: > My certificate was securely generated on a smart card and is passphrase > protected so I would like to stop having to enter my certificate > passphrase and my user password to collect my mail. Where abouts in the > config file