Lawrence Greenfield wrote:

>    Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 11:20:03 -0500
>    From: twk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
>    It didn't used to be. More than one person here has given up on
>    making SASL work with Kerberos V. We are seriously considering
>    using the PAM SASL module with Kerberos support, though this adds
>    additional complexity. Until we can straighten this out, we'll be
>    running 1.5.19.
> 
> Well, of course, 1.5.19 doesn't support Kerberos V at all.


True, I forgot we're actually doing Kerberos IV


> 
> There are so many different authentication schemes out there and
> they'll all interact differently and it's really challenging to write
> portable software that compiles for everyone.
> 
> We do want to make it easier but we get precious few patches in this
> area and we just don't have that many different systems here.
> 


Kerberos is not exactly an obscure authentication scheme (at least in the 
nono-corporate world). Mind you, I take issue with SASL and not Cyrus.  Smarter 
minds than mine have given up in disgust trying to get SASL and Kerberos V to 
work with server software other than Cyrus. Even the vendor couldn't figure out 
how to make it work.

Has anyone out there patched the old authentication routines into a recent 
version of Cyrus?

Thanks,
Tom


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