Re: [Exim] Fancy authentication methods + actually enforcing authentication

Author: Andreas Metzler
Date:
To: Exim-Users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Fancy authentication methods + actually enforcing authentication

On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 07:15:49PM -0000, Matt Sealey wrote:
[...]
> Are there any easy-peasy ways to get the more exotic methods (CRAM-MD5,
> blah blah) working *using saslauthd* for authentication
[...]

If saslauthd is using the authentication info from /etc/shadow it is
technically impossible, you need the cleartext passwords for CRAM-MD5
and you can't get these from /etc/shadow.
                 cu andreas

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