[Dovecot] Testing EXTERNAL AUTHENTICATION

[Stephen Feyrer]

Hi.

It didn't work.  I tried first with {EXTERNAL} and then with {PLAIN} the  
result below was the same in both cases.

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* 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

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Thanks

Stephen Feyrer

On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:12:11 -0000, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> On 17.3.2010, at 0.04, Stephen Feyrer wrote:
>
>> The tests using SASL and SASL-IR in Thunderbird both fail to  
>> authenticate.  I have tried using openssl s_client with the same  
>> result.  I've run the auth command in three ways just to be sure I got  
>> the second example right.  I even checked to make sure I've spelt my  
>> name right and the case of the letters.
>
> EXTERNAL auth works only if this this also works:
>
> a LOGIN username-from-cert ""
>
> i.e. login with empty password.
>
>>  passdb:
>>    driver: passwd-file
>>    args: /opt/etc/dovecot/passwd
>>  userdb:
>>    driver: passwd
>>
>> /opt/etc/dovecot/passwd
>> Stephen:{EXTERNAL}
>
> So try {PLAIN} here.
>
>