Re: SASL w/ Encrypted SQL Password Security (Comment, Suggestion and Possible Solution)

2011-01-26 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
riele. -- Da: Raymond T. Sundland A: Dan White Cc: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu Data: 25 gennaio 2011 19.52.42 CET Oggetto: Re: SASL w/ Encrypted SQL Password Security (Comment, Suggestion and Possible Solution) Thanks for the explanation. Though, I would prefer some

Re: SASL w/ Encrypted SQL Password Security (Comment, Suggestion and Possible Solution)

2011-01-25 Thread Raymond T. Sundland
Thanks for the explanation. Though, I would prefer something better than MD5 since it has been broken for years. As for my "hack", it doesn't work because I mis-read what %p was, thinking it was the password, not the column to look for... so back to the drawing board. I will look at using someth

Re: SASL w/ Encrypted SQL Password Security (Comment, Suggestion and Possible Solution)

2011-01-25 Thread Dan White
On 25/01/11 12:48 -0500, Raymond T. Sundland wrote: >So given that it's been at least 6 years since it's been common >security practice to not store cleartext passwords in a database, why >does SASL still require it?  Can't SASL be modified to accept >some token from the SQL query t

SASL w/ Encrypted SQL Password Security (Comment, Suggestion and Possible Solution)

2011-01-25 Thread Raymond T. Sundland
Maybe this isn't the correct list for this question as it has to do more with SASL, but I am setting up a new mail server on a new box.  This is my 4th iteration of "starting fresh" using Cyrus Imap with some sort of 3rd party database backend, using both LDAP and MySQL