[Dovecot] Possible bug with proxy in 2.0.4
Timo Sirainen
tss at iki.fi
Thu Sep 30 20:48:34 EEST 2010
On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 08:08 +0100, Ed W wrote:
> > CRAM-MD5 doesn't work directly with proxying. It can't work, by CRAM-MD5 design. The only way to make it work is if your passdb lookup returns a password, either the user's actual password in plaintext or some master password, that the backends accepts with plaintext authentication.
>
> I'm not quite sure I understand the nuances of that?
>
> Yes I do have a passdb (on the remote machine) which returns a plain
> password. Actually since it's DB driven I have already returned all the
> information needed to auth the user on the proxying machine
>
> The password query is the same on both sides and it looks like:
>
> password_query = SELECT NULLIF(mail_host, '%l') as proxy,
> NULLIF(mail_host, '%l') as host, \
> email as user, password, \
Add: ..., password, password as pass, ..
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