[Dovecot] OTP?
Micah Cowan
micah at cowan.name
Wed Feb 7 03:29:25 UTC 2007
Frank Cusack wrote:
> On February 6, 2007 4:12:02 PM -0800 Micah Cowan <micah at cowan.name>
wrote:
>> I was wondering where I might find more information about using OTP
as an
>> authentication protocol with dovecot.
>
> I found that some (all?) clients login multiple times in a single user
> visible "session". This makes sense for multithreaded clients, I guess.
>
> So having dovecot do OTP directly is a bit of a chore. What I did was
> use the auth cache so that an OTP is valid for x amount of time. Works
> like a charm.
That's what I had planned to do.
>
> I'm just using PAM with pam_otp_auth (www.tri-dsystems.com).
Ah. So, pam_opie maybe is the wrong thing to try to use? Of course, I'm
not really interested in shelling out money for a PAM plugin (it's just
my personal mailbox; I could probably write my own without too much
trouble, if I really had to).
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