Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 18:21:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org> To: Erik Stainsby <stainsby@telus.net> Cc: Jaime Kikpole <jaime@malkav.snowmoon.com>, Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cyrus SASL Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910291817400.58024-100000@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <002501bf223f$cedae800$8012c2cf@ws1>
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On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Erik Stainsby wrote:
> Cyrus IMAP has moved on from the 1.5.19 that is in the ports collection.
> Current Syrus (last week) was 1.6. The 1.6 series requires Cyrus SASL
> (Simple Authentication and Security Layer). This seems to me from my
> limitted experience with it (mostly frustrating) to be a re-invention of the
> PAM architecture: a generalized middleware for configurable authentication.
Incorrect: it complements PAM. PAM doesn't specify how to authenticate
across a network. SASL doesn't specify how to authenticate locally
(i.e. against any local backend like a password database).
Kris
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