Hi Tim
Thanks for the response! I'm happy to leave the passwords in cleartext
in the db if I can get CRAM-MD5 lookups working, as the machine is
locked down fairly tightly. Now just got to wait for those more gifted
in mysql lookup syntax to see if they've got any tips!
Thanks again
Konrad
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 16:29, Tim Jackson wrote:
> Hi Konrad, on Wed, 07 Jan 2004 16:20:35 +0000 you wrote:
>
> > This seems to work fine, except for one thing: the passwords in the
> > database have to be stored in plain text
> ...
> > The other thing that has got me flummoxed is getting the same
> > authenticator working for cram_md5
>
> If you are going to be using CRAM-MD5 at all, you are going to have to
> keep the passwords in plaintext on the server. (This is not a limitation
> of Exim; it's to do with the algorithm, which requires the plaintext
> password to be available at the server end in order to compute a hash)
>
>
> Tim
>
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