Re: [pysieved] Dovecot SASL [FIXED also fixes auth problem]

[Jonathan Stewart <jonathan at kc8onw dot net>]

Jonathan Stewart wrote:
> After trying to auth using PAM it turns out that the python PAM module
> used is specific to Linux-PAM so I decided to try using Dovecot SASL
> like I use with Postfix.  I can start pysieved now but I get "Bad
> username and password" in Thunderbirds sieve plugin and
> 
> Auth returns
> 'CH\tPLAIN\tplaintext\nVERSION\t1\t0\nSPID\t54374\nCUID\t3200\nDONE\n'
> 
> on the console.
> 
> Any suggestions?

/me puts on dunce hat for the evening, I see the dovecot module does
auth anyway.  I also just spent forever figuring out that the config
file variables have to be left justified or the parser silently barfs :P

(some time period later)

I GOT IT TO WORK! :)

A variable and a function were misnamed, I'm not sure which one was
intended so I just picked one and made it consistent.  I think these
where the only 2 changes I had to make, if someone else has trouble with
it please let me know.

--- pysieved.py.orig    Thu Jul 19 21:15:09 2007
+++ pysieved.py Thu Jul 19 21:15:21 2007
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@

         def authenticate(self, username, passwd):
             self.params['username'] = username
-            self.params['password'] = passwd
+            self.params['passwd'] = passwd
             return authenticate.auth(self.params)

         def get_homedir(self, username):

--- dovecot.py.orig     Thu Jul 19 21:22:57 2007
+++ dovecot.py  Thu Jul 19 21:22:25 2007
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@
         return False


-    def create_storage(self, params):
+    def create(self, params):
         return ScriptStorage(self.sievec,
                              self.scripts_dir,
                              params['homedir'])



Hope this helps someone else,
Jonathan