[Dovecot] GSSAPI auth failing for kmail

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Feb 29 12:41:45 EET 2012


On 29.2.2012, at 12.34, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On 29.2.2012, at 12.15, Mark Davies wrote:
> 
>> 1 AUTHENTICATE GSSAPI YIICWgYJKoZIhvcSAQICAQBugg[...]wfuKg4VUptzPwb\r\n
>> 
>> and receives
>> 
>> + \r\n
>> 
>> from dovecot, which it doesn't like and reports
>> clientAuthenticate: sasl_client_step failed with: -1
> 
> Oh, yes, this is a bug in Dovecot..

Hmm. Or it looked like a bug, since it replied only with "+", so I thought all auth mechanisms would have such a bug, but no.. So I'm not really sure why it's not sending more data. I don't have a Kerberos setup to test this with. v2.1's GSSAPI code is anyway identical to v2.0's.



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