[imp] Re: Re: IMP and Cyrus - unencrypted login to localhost impossible?

[Horst Simon]

Thanks,

 this fixed it for me now to the next ldap problem not related to horde/imp.

Regards,
Horst



"Tornoci Laszlo" <torlasz@xenia.sote.hu> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0211211735540.14156-100000@xenia.sote.hu...
> On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Markus Gaugusch wrote:
>
> > On Nov 21, Horst Simon <Horst.Simon@oz.quest.com> wrote:
> > > I hope there is someone with a solution to this one. I have the same
> > > problem, where imp wants to authenticate to sasldb2, but not to pam,
> > > every other client works ok. It is probably hard coded into php.
> > I have come to another conclusion: IMP (PHP) asks the server of known
auth
> > mechs. Since CRAM-MD5 is stronger than plain, it doesn't use plain. I'll
> > try to disable other auth mechs an the cyrus server, but it is bad
> > nevertheless.
>
> Yes, it is not a problem with IMP. You need to tell Cyrus-imapd not to
> offer anything else but PLAIN as an auth mech, and then you are ok.
> Just make sure imap/notls is used only through localhost (I use iptables
> for this). These lines in /etc/imapd.conf will make Cyrus offer only
PLAIN:
>
> allowplaintext: yes
> sasl_mech_list: PLAIN
>
> There is no need to recompile cyrus as someone else suggested on this
> list.
>                                    Yours: Laszlo
>
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