[Dovecot] Testing EXTERNAL AUTHENTICATION

[Stephen Feyrer]

Hi.

I tried:

Stephen:{EXTERNAL}nopassword=y

and

Stephen:{PLAIN}nopassword=y

Both with the same result below.

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Thanks,

Stephen Feyrer.

On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:47:45 -0000, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> And you also tested the external with the {PLAIN} too, right? Well,  
> maybe it also wants nopassword=y extra field. See  
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/PasswdFile how to add it. Maybe I  
> should add {ANY} or something that makes "accept any password" easy..
>
> On 17.3.2010, at 0.41, Stephen Feyrer wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> It didn't work.  I tried first with {EXTERNAL} and then with {PLAIN}  
>> the result below was the same in both cases.
>>
>> ---
>> * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE  
>> AUTH=EXTERNAL] Dovecot ready.
>> a LOGIN username-from-cert ""
>> a NO [ALERT] Unsupported authentication mechanism.
>> DONE
>>
>> --
>> Thanks
>>
>> Stephen Feyrer