Re: [Exim] CRAM-MD5 fudging

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Szerző: Philip Hazel
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Címzett: John Jetmore
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Tárgy: Re: [Exim] CRAM-MD5 fudging
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, John Jetmore wrote:

> Now I'm wondering about a slightly different direction. Our radius
> software is wonderfully configurable (my boss gets the same gleam in his
> eye talking about it that I get over exim), so I feel that if I can get
> the data to the radius server in any format that is suitable to radius, I
> can handle it.


This sounds like item 59 on the Wish List:

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(59) 26-Jun-02 M A "custom" authenticator

... that is simply a front end to external code. For example, there may be
an external API that hides the user password and does CRAM-MD5 when passed the
details of the challenge and response.
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> 3) if I implement this variable cleanly, is there a chance of it being
>    adopted into the main source tree so I don't have to maintain a branch?


I think this will need a whole new authenticator in addition to the
variable, but I have not thought about this at all.

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