Marco Colombo wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Luca Olivetti wrote: > > > Note that if I omit the "-m plain" it will logs me in as user cyrus (so > > no proxy): > > > > $ imtest -a cyrus -u luca localhost > > S: * OK saturn.wetron.local Cyrus IMAP4 v2.1.12-Mandrake-RPM-2.1.12-1mdk > > server ready > > C: C01 CAPABILITY > > S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ MAILBOX-REFERRALS > > NAMESPACE UIDPLUS ID NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN MULTIAPPEND SORT > > THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES IDLE STARTTLS LISTEXT > > LIST-SUBSCRIBED ANNOTATEMORE X-NETSCAPE > > S: C01 OK Completed > > Please enter your password: > > C: L01 LOGIN cyrus {7} > > S: + go ahead > > C: <omitted> > > S: L01 OK User logged in > > Authenticated. > > Security strength factor: 0 > > That was the LOGIN command, not AUTHENTICATE. I think it bypasses > SASL checks in some ways.
It still uses SASL (Cyrus uses SASL for ALL authentication), but protocol-specific login commands are treated different from SASL mechs. -- Kenneth Murchison Oceana Matrix Ltd. Software Engineer 21 Princeton Place 716-662-8973 x26 Orchard Park, NY 14127 --PGP Public Key-- http://www.oceana.com/~ken/ksm.pgp