Re: cyrus imap without sasl

2002-09-19 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, GOMBAS Gabor wrote: > On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 02:29:24AM -0700, David Wright wrote: > > > It's true, there isn't a need, meaning Cyrus could have been designed to > > use PAM directly as a security layer and not used SASL. > > Huh? PAM is not a security layer. It is an API de

Re: cyrus imap without sasl

2002-09-19 Thread GOMBAS Gabor
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 02:29:24AM -0700, David Wright wrote: > It's true, there isn't a need, meaning Cyrus could have been designed to > use PAM directly as a security layer and not used SASL. Huh? PAM is not a security layer. It is an API designed for local authentication only. On the other

Re: cyrus imap without sasl

2002-09-19 Thread David Wright
> Because we think that there is no need to use SASL library in the > middle of the way to authenticate via PAM+mysql. Isnt it a better > performance issue? Or we are completely wrong? It's true, there isn't a need, meaning Cyrus could have been designed to use PAM directly as a security la

Re: cyrus imap without sasl

2002-09-18 Thread Ken Murchison
sandra wrote: > > Hi people, > > We have a question about athentication with cyrus+sasl. > Here we had configured our cyrus installation to use SASL + PAM to > authenticate users in a mysql database. We have read that there is > a way to use IMAP LOGIN instead to authenticate users via

cyrus imap without sasl

2002-09-18 Thread sandra
Hi people, We have a question about athentication with cyrus+sasl. Here we had configured our cyrus installation to use SASL + PAM to authenticate users in a mysql database. We have read that there is a way to use IMAP LOGIN instead to authenticate users via SASL PLAIN . If it is possible