On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, W B Hacker wrote:
> *However* - as we presently use an unrelated authentication method, where and at
> what, should I look - in an MUA (Moz/T-bird?) as well as Exim - to insure that
> I emulate whatever it is that this is intended to be used for?
The dovecot authenticator in Exim, rather like the cyrus-sasl
authenticator, is really nothing more than a "middleman" between the
client and the dovecot authentication daemon. Instead of Exim doing any
authentication work, it passes on the client's input to Dovecot, and
passes back the prompts (if any) to the client. Thus, it supports any
authentication method that Dovecot supports (well, strictly, is
configured to support). As this is a server authenticator only, there is
no impact on clients. They just authenticate as they always did.
> - List of necessaries?
Running Dovecot, configured to authenticate somehow and with an external
interface socket set up.
> - Sample authenticator code, anyone?
Here is what is in NewStuff, now that I've corrected it :-)
dovecot_plain:
driver = dovecot
public_name = PLAIN
server_name = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client
server_setid = $auth1
dovecot_ntlm:
driver = dovecot
public_name = NTLM
server_name = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client
server_setid = $auth1
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service
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