Re: Cyrus IMAP Presentation

[Mathieu Arnold]

--On dimanche 22 septembre 2002 12:27 -0400 Ken Murchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> Quoting Eric Estabrooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 
>> It should be possible to write a pam module (or extend an existing one) 
>> to include other mechanisms beside plain, if like you said you had plain 
> 
> My understanding of PAM is that you can't retrieve the password.  You
> simply  pass it a user, password and service and PAM tells you whether it
> is  correct/allowed or not.  I haven't checked the PAM API, so maybe
> there is a  way.

that is true, you can only give it a login and a *plain text* password,
then, pam checks for its validity, so, you cannot do digests auth. I
maintain the pam-pgsql freebsd port, and I can tell you that I've been
debugging it enough to know that :)

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Mathieu Arnold