Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 19:54:05 +0300 From: Johan Paul <mailing-lists@johanpaul.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Auth fails partly for imap Message-ID: <3F2403AD.4000803@johanpaul.com> In-Reply-To: <3F240021.9090708@johanpaul.com> References: <3F23EBE3.8060701@johanpaul.com> <F757947A-C04A-11D7-88EB-0030656DD690@foolishgames.com> <20030727162046.GC11873@cs.mcgill.ca> <3F240021.9090708@johanpaul.com>
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> Hi!
>
> That helped! Now I can log into my IMAP account even with Pine. I will
> use SSL to secure the authentication though.
>
> Oddly though even the login from Pine worked after the initial
> installation and configuration of FreeBSD and all other applications.
> Now I moved the server from an internal network to the Internet and if I
> can remember correctly Pine failed after this move. Any ideas why the
> change of IP (and hostname) would cause this kind of behaviour? Have I
> missed some setting somewhere with PAM or something?
>
> I have this in my /var/log/messages and it from the time the server was
> on the internal net:
>
> Jul 25 18:39:50 silakka imapd[5956]: login:
> localhost.milkyway[127.0.0.1] kypeli CRAM-MD5 User logged in
>
> This must be from Pine since Mozilla and webmail use plain text. Now I
> am even more confused :)
Ok, some updates that I came up with.
If my doubts are correct the problem might be in the sasldb auth method.
I have set up my user originally (as a test) to authenticate from the
sasldb and added my user using saslpasswd2. It then added as the realm
my old hostname which now have changed since I moved the computer to the
Internet. That's why the CRAM-MD5 failes.
And if my thoughts are correct there is no way to use CRAM-MD5 (or other
method than plain text) if you want to authenticate with PAM from MySQL
like I do. I am correct? :) Hence I have to live with the fact that
Pine needs that line of configuration to work with PAM/MySQL?
>
> Best regards,
> Johan Paul
Once again,
Johan Paul
>
>>
>> Andrew.
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 11:57:04AM -0400, Lucas Holt wrote:
>>
>>> Historically, Netscape has not supported encrypted (even if it is
>>> weak) authentication for imap and pop3. Slowly, they add standards
>>> as people complain. I'm sure the mozilla project is no different. I
>>> know for a fact that early builds of mozilla did not support cram md5.
>>>
>>> Basically, webmail and mozilla are sending clear text
>>> authentication. Pine is a bit smarter and uses cram md5. Look
>>> through the pine preferences and see if you can downgrade it to clear
>>> text. If not, there is probably a compile option to use cleartext.
>>> (thats how they do it in imapd at least)
>>>
>>> On Sunday, July 27, 2003, at 11:12 AM, Johan Paul wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> What have I done wrong when I can log into my IMAP account
>>>> (cyrus-imapd-2.0.17) via Mozilla and web mail (Squirrelmail) but
>>>> Pine doesn't allow me to log in? I use PAM with MySQL
>>>> authentication. This is what I get to my log file (first when I log
>>>> into with Mozilla from a remote client, then Pine locally):
>>>>
>>>> -- 8< --
>>>> Jul 27 18:04:27 silakka imapd[5665]: login: my.computer.foo[x.x.x.x]
>>>> kypeli plaintext
>>>>
>>>> Jul 27 18:05:09 silakka imapd[5685]: badlogin:
>>>> localhost.computer.foo[127.0.0.1] CRAM-MD5 authentication failure
>>>> [no secret in database]
>>>> -- 8< --
>>>>
>>>> Why does Pine try to use CRAM-MD5 but Mozilla doesn't? I have
>>>> {localhost:143}inbox in Pine in inbox-path.
>>>>
>>>> Running FreeBSD 4.8.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Johan Paul
>>>>
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>>>
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