[imp] Authentication problems

[Eric Rostetter]

Quoting Jim Buitt <jbuitt at siu.edu>:

> I am having problems with IMP authenticating to our local IMAP server
> (which uses Kerberos authentication).

What kind of problems?

> Kerberos is set up so if a user
> attempts a bad password 10 times, it will lock the account.

Sounds reasonable.

> However, I am
> noticing that when a user enters a bad password when logging in (either
> intentional or accidental) from the IMP login page, it attempts to try
> using the bad password to authenticate against the IMAP server multiple
> times.

Correct.

> The user will eventually get back the login page with the login
> error message after several seconds.  It will try sometimes 2, 3, or 4
> times (seems to be random).

That is strange.  Mine always tries exactly the same number of tries
each time (3 in my case).  I would not expect that number to change.

> Is there something the IMP/Horde/PHP
> configuration that controls this "feature" so it will only try the bad
> password once?

No. This has nothing to do with Horde/IMP settings.  It is all php and
your imap server.  If your imap server uses PAM, you may be able to change
it via pam.

> Jim

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Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin

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