[imp] How to force plain authentication ?

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Olivier Le Lain <olivier.lelain at xrce.xerox.com>:

> Hello,
>
> I can't succeed in loging on to my new Imap server with imp.
> It's a cyrus one with allows gssapi (kerberos) PLAIN and LOGIN  
> authentication.
> If I remove gssapi from sasl_mech_list: in /etc/imapd.conf ,  
> everything works fine (imp users  can connect).
> But if I set it back, imp login fails and imp/test.php gives me indeed :
>
> /
>     * Trying protocol imap/notls, Port 143:
>
>           ERROR - The server returned the following error message:
>
>           Kerberos error: No credentials cache found (try running kinit) for
>           localhost.localdomain/
>
> It looks like imp doesn't try to switch back to plain or login  
> authentication.
>
> This is also the behaviour of cyradm. It refuses to login me if I  
> don't have a valid kerberos ticket by default, but  I can force  
> LOGIN. See :
>
> /cyradm -u olivier imapserver
> cyradm: cannot authenticate to server with  as olivier/
>
> /cyradm -auth  LOGIN -u olivier imapserver/
> /IMAP Password: /
>
> Is there a way to do the same with Imp, ie force the "-auth LOGIN"  
> equivalent somewhere in the conf ?

No, because authentication is done by the c-client library, not by IMP  
directly.

Jan.

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