On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Kervin L. Pierre wrote: > What is the difference between 'auxpropd' and 'saslauthd'? I read the > sasl docs and got that saslauthd only does PLAIN, but isn't that what > auxprops do as well? Is there functionality missing that will only be > provided with an LDAP auxprop plugin?
Well for one, there is currently no such thing as an auxpropd. What it would entail is documented here: http://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/attachment.cgi?id=53&action=view saslauthd's protocol doesn't allow the retreival of plaintext (or even hashed) versions of the passwords so as to be usable by challenge/response mechanisms such as CRAM-MD5 and DIGEST-MD5. Auxprop plugins will do that. > I'm planning to use cyrus 2.2 with LDAP users, so I'm trying to get this > info straight. If you're just using PLAIN, LOGIN, or the IMAP login command, you're set, since the current saslauthd supports LDAP. -Rob -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper
