[Dovecot] Incorrect GSSAPI Service Name for POP3

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Sep 22 17:56:58 EEST 2006


On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 18:13 -0500, Tim Steiner wrote:
> In pop3-login/client-authenticate.c, when sasl_server_auth_begin() is
> called, it does so with the service name of "POP3".  GSSAPI uses this
> service name when obtaining its service credentials.  The problem is
> that according to http://www.iana.org/assignments/gssapi-service-names ,
> the service name should instead be simply "pop".  This causes GSSAPI
> authentication to fail when used with a POP3 account.
> 
> I have created a small patch that corrects this problem for GSSAPI only,
> as I do not know if other mechanisms are affected by this.

Might have been better if I had used "pop" from the beginning, but I
think changing it now would just break things..

I fixed it for GSSAPI anyway, with a slightly different patch.
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