On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 20:23 -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 19:56 -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: > > >>Squirrelmail is an IMAP client. So, it takes the username and password and > >>uses that to validate > >>against the IMAP server. > > > I know it takes a username and password, but HOW does it compare that > > username and password against the user database? > > I told you: Squirrelmail uses the IMAP protocol to connect to a configured > IMAP server. Thus, the > IMAP server compares against some user database. And I say "some" because the > backend will depend on > the IMAP server implementation... > > - -- > Arturo "Buanzo" Busleiman - www.buanzo.com.ar > Consultor en Seguridad Informatica / Dominio Digital TV - Da FOSS man! > KTP Consultores - info AT ktpconsultores.com.ar > > Romper un sistema de seguridad los acerca tanto a ser hackers como el > encender autos puenteando los convierte en ingenieros automotrices.
What I mean is that I need the name of some function that I can look for in the code that compares the username/password against the system set. BTW, my IMAP server is dovecot-0.99.14 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
