This is probably a well-known problem, but I have yet to find a
solution. Here's hoping someone on this list can help.
I am running pine-4.33 installed from rpm on a RH 7.1 system. When I
use pine to read cyrus-imapd mail, I can read my inbox and
inbox.folders, but both the message list and i
> > What do you mean by "network authentication"? If you mean a ticket
> > system so that users need only authenticte themselves once, it most
> > certainly does, via Kerberos.
>
> I'm starting to think you have never written a PAM module yourself.
> You _cannot_ do Kerberos authentication using P
> > What exactly is the problem under consideration that
> > (given the appropriate modules) PAM doesn't solve?
>
> Just one, IMHO. PAM needs root access.
Interesting that your one problem is different from Lawrence
Greenfeld's.
PAM only needs root access if it's authenticating off /etc/shadow
> Grab SASL v1.5.27 from ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/cyrus-mail/BETA/
> (or better yet grab the latest CVS) and use saslauthd.
Thanks for the pointer! I'll try this out tonight.
> BTW, I noticed an LDAP pwcheck daemon here:
> http://www.linc-dev.com/auth.html
I looked at this daemon (pwcheck_ldap). It does not do secure (ssl)
ldap. Therefore it is useless to me.
Doing ldap-ssl is not entirely trivial. Much better to make use of
pam_ldap rather than reproducing all
