[Dovecot] Testing EXTERNAL AUTHENTICATION
Timo Sirainen
tss at iki.fi
Wed Mar 17 00:12:11 EET 2010
On 17.3.2010, at 0.04, Stephen Feyrer wrote:
> The tests using SASL and SASL-IR in Thunderbird both fail to authenticate. I have tried using openssl s_client with the same result. I've run the auth command in three ways just to be sure I got the second example right. I even checked to make sure I've spelt my name right and the case of the letters.
EXTERNAL auth works only if this this also works:
a LOGIN username-from-cert ""
i.e. login with empty password.
> passdb:
> driver: passwd-file
> args: /opt/etc/dovecot/passwd
> userdb:
> driver: passwd
>
> /opt/etc/dovecot/passwd
> Stephen:{EXTERNAL}
So try {PLAIN} here.
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