From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 29 18:21:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id 30DB714C2F; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 18:21:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 200ED1CD408; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 18:21:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 18:21:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Erik Stainsby Cc: Jaime Kikpole , Forrest Aldrich , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cyrus SASL In-Reply-To: <002501bf223f$cedae800$8012c2cf@ws1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ---- "Lisa, if you don't like your job, you don't strike - you just go in every day and do it real half-assed. It's the American Way." -- Homer Simpson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message