[Dovecot] An alternate "dovecot-auth" daemon using cyrus-sasl

[Dmitry Butskoy]

Timo Sirainen wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 15:48 +0400, buc wrote:
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>>  The patch against 1.0.alpha1 is 
>>here: http://dmitry.butskoy.name/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.alpha1-cyrus.tar.gz .
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>Didn't see anything obviously wrong there.
>
>In general I wouldn't mind having a standalone cyrus-sasl auth daemon
>that's compatible with dovecot-auth, but it'd have to be standalone
>instead of being distributed with Dovecot itself.
>  
>
I agree.
However at the moment I would like to use a ready code, rather than to 
write all from the scratch. My be distribute it as a patch, not complete 
code itself?..

>A lot more code could be removed from dovecot-auth besides what you
>already did.
>
You mean userdb stuff?

> Probably better idea would be to just build a new one from
>scratch..
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I'll think about it.

Is it true that this new "from-the scratch" one can be compatible with 
both "stable" and "alpha1" versions simultaneously?

What is the best way of integration of such a daemon with dovecot 
system? (There are some different ways, as can be seen at the end of 
dovecot.conf file...) Whether you have some skeleton (examples, tests 
etc.) of such an auth daemon?


Thanks,
Dmitry Butskoy