[Dovecot] [PATCHES] NetBSD support, authentication buffer size

[Timo Sirainen]

On 11.4.2013, at 11.41, Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu at netbsd.org> wrote:

> Here are a few unintegrated patches, just tested against 2.2rc7:
> 
> 1) NetBSD's getmntinfo uses struct statvfs while other BSD use struct statfs
> http://ftp.espci.fr/shadow/manu/patch-ak
> 
> 2) NetBSD  5.x net_getunixcred() support. Build on NetBSD, but not tested
> (I am testing on NetBSD 6.0):
> http://ftp.espci.fr/shadow/manu/patch-src_lib_net.c

OK, I'll add these.

> 3) Increase authentication buffer size so that it can cope with 
> unusual authentication scheme. This patch was integrated in dovecot-1.x
> but did not make its way in dovecot-2.x
> http://ftp.espci.fr/shadow/manu/patch-src_lib-master_master-auth.h

By this I think you don't mean special authentication mechanisms, or even AUTHENTICATE PLAIN mechanism, but you mean that someone is using LOGIN command in such a kludgy way that the password field is over 1024 bytes long? I'm not very interested in supporting that, at least without a good reason.