On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
I've just reworked my Cyrus IMAP installation, and I'm beginning to get the
impression that --with-auth (which defaults to unix) is only for group
memberships, and really has no other effect. It certainly doesn't seem to
affect SASL in any way, which
Igor Brezac wrote:
--auth-auth specifies an authorization (not authentication) mechanism.
The unix module is mostly useful for group.
OK, yeah, authorization vs. authentication, right. Since SASL cannot
provide authorization details, Cyrus IMAP has to get them from somewhere
else, so that's
I've just reworked my Cyrus IMAP installation, and I'm beginning to get
the impression that --with-auth (which defaults to unix) is only for
group memberships, and really has no other effect. It certainly doesn't
seem to affect SASL in any way, which is what actually handles
authentication.
