[Tickets #10617] Re: INGO Auth Generation Incorrect

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/10617
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  Ticket             | 10617
  Updated By         | Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>
  Summary            | INGO Auth Generation Incorrect
  Queue              | Ingo
  Version            | 2.0.5
  Type               | Bug
  State              | Feedback
  Priority           | 2. Medium
  Milestone          |
  Patch              | 1
  Owners             |
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Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> (2011-11-13 21:52) wrote:

>> That doesn't make sense, how is managesieve supposed to know for
>> which user to accept the uploaded script, if you hardcode the
>> effective user to a fixed value?
> From what I have been able to gather, the username that is used to  
> authenticate is used as the effective user by Dovecot's managesieve  
> server.   When authenticating against Dovecot's managesieve  
> implementation the effective user needs to be set to null.  I have  
> attached the perl script Dovecot provides for testing authentication.
That's a bug in Dovecot then. The effective user is not (necessarily)  
the same like the authenticating users, that's why are two different  
user types.