Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 19:38:57 +0300 From: Johan Paul <mailing-lists@johanpaul.com> To: Andrew BOGECHO <andrewb@cs.mcgill.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Auth fails partly for imap Message-ID: <3F240021.9090708@johanpaul.com> In-Reply-To: <20030727162046.GC11873@cs.mcgill.ca> References: <3F23EBE3.8060701@johanpaul.com> <F757947A-C04A-11D7-88EB-0030656DD690@foolishgames.com> <20030727162046.GC11873@cs.mcgill.ca>
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> Hi,
Hi!
>
> We use plaintext over SSL. For pine to work we add the following line
> in the pine.conf
>
> disable-these-authenticators=CRAM-MD5
>
> Hope that helps. Use with care over insecure connections.
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 :)
Best regards,
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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>>
>>Lucas Holt
>>Luke@FoolishGames.com
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>>"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and
>>I'm not sure about the former."
>>- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
>>
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