Re: [pysieved] Authentication problem

[Robert Schetterer <robert at schetterer dot org>]

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Neale Pickett schrieb:
> On Thursday 19 April 2007 12:24, Koen Vermeer wrote:
>> I did a quick hack to get dovecot-auth to work - see attachment.
>> Currently, it just does plaintext authentication, but I guess I could
>> try to add more methods if people need that. Any comments are welcome!
> 
> Koen,
> 
> wow!  I think saslauthd is a different thing than dovecot auth, which is why 
> you were having problems.  I was going to try to get a start at a 
> dovecot-auth module, but it looks like you've already done most of the work.  
> Thanks!  :)
> 
> For Dovecot, dovecot-auth is a much better way to do things than all the 
> plugins.  It seems like it might be able to replace all *three* plugins, 
> which would mean no configuration for most pysieved users.
> 
> If someone can do the hard work of finding out what string to send to 
> dovecot-auth in order to get username, home directory, uid and gid, I can 
> whip together a new module.  It may require reworking the pysieved 
> architecture a little bit to do all three things in one place.
> 
> If we find a way to do everything in one place, would anybody still prefer to 
> use the separate modules?  If nobody has a need for this the whole program 
> could get a whole lot smaller :)
> 
> Neale
> 
Hi Neale, using dovecot auth would be nice,
but the still existing other auth types keeps your
code more universal to other setups which may exist in the wild,

( as i wrote this i dont get an idea which setups this might be *g)

auth against general imap would be nice too

Give a warm hug to your daughter, i hope she will get fine soon
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Best Regards

Robert Schetterer

https://www.schetterer.org
Munich/Bavaria/Germany
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