Re: [RFC] EXTERNAL auth choosing between CN and email address?

2005-02-25 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Marco Colombo wrote: So it seems its usage is deprecated. If you are to code a patch, you may look into the alternative name(s). Those are standard v3 extensions. As I understand it, comforming applications should look there in order to find email addresses (of type rfc822Name). Of course, since yo

Re: [RFC] EXTERNAL auth choosing between CN and email address?

2005-02-25 Thread Marco Colombo
Kevin P. Fleming wrote: Marco Colombo wrote: What field is that, exaclty? v3 extension? I'm not sure... it's in the OpenSSL headers files as "NID_pkcs9_emailAddress". Oh, I know nothing of OpenSSL API. It seems too me (but I'm not sure) it's the emailAddress attribute in the DN. Some time ago I d

Re: [RFC] EXTERNAL auth choosing between CN and email address?

2005-02-24 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Marco Colombo wrote: What field is that, exaclty? v3 extension? I'm not sure... it's in the OpenSSL headers files as "NID_pkcs9_emailAddress". Anyway, the goal of authentication is to identify users not email addresses. The whole idea of using certs is broken, unless you use the cert itself. No C

Re: [RFC] EXTERNAL auth choosing between CN and email address?

2005-02-24 Thread Marco Colombo
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: I'm working on a webmail system using client certificates for authentication. I have Cyrus IMAP working fine with Cyrus SASL and "AUTH=EXTERNAL" after negotiating TLS... the IMAP daemon authenticate the user properly. However, it chooses the CN from th

[RFC] EXTERNAL auth choosing between CN and email address?

2005-02-23 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
I'm working on a webmail system using client certificates for authentication. I have Cyrus IMAP working fine with Cyrus SASL and "AUTH=EXTERNAL" after negotiating TLS... the IMAP daemon authenticate the user properly. However, it chooses the CN from the client cert as the authentication identi