From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 21 16:33: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net (flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.232]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AA5737B406 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 16:32:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0462.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.193.207] helo=mindspring.com) by flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17LXtX-0003in-00; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 16:32:48 -0700 Message-ID: <3D13B778.1BB52411@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 16:32:08 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Dillon Cc: Lamont Granquist , Jason Andresen , "Brandon D. Valentine" , Darren Pilgrim , Evan Dower , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cyrus vs. UW IMAP (was: Re: I Volunteer) References: <20020621154902.O79338-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Dillon wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > > It has functionality that can not be implemented without adding to > > how UNIX does things. Basically, it needs to be able to hook the > > account constructor/destructor. > > It's quite simple to integrate Cyrus IMAP with the local system. > Cyrus will by default use the system password database for its > authentication, While I appreciate the positive support of Cyrus, I guess I need to point out that this approach only works if you are willing to send passwords over the wire in plaintext. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message