[Dovecot] [patch] gssapi support

Colin Walters walters at verbum.org
Mon Jul 12 23:07:07 EEST 2004


On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 19:04 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> Or I'd
> do it by first converting the integer to network byte order, then
> buffer_append(buf, &num, sizeof(num)). There's macros for that in
> lib/byteorder.h.

Done, thanks.

> Postfix uses Cyrus SASL library to do all the SASL stuff (well, except
> parsing the SMTP commands of course). I replaced that completely with my
> patch (http://dovecot.org/patches/postfix/).

I see.

> Anyway, Postfix didn't do integrity protection with Cyrus library either
> even though it supported it. 

Hm, that's too bad.  Kerberos support isn't useful to me unless it does
integrity, since otherwise you need SSL, and I'm trying to avoid using
SSL.

> Also I was thinking about modifying my
> patch some day to use only Postfix's internal functions since all it
> really needs is some simple UNIX socket talking. 

That would probably be necessary if the patch is going to be upstreamed,
I imagine.

> So I guess integrity
> proxy might as well be in login-common.

Ok.
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