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

Emmanuel Dreyfus manu at netbsd.org
Thu Apr 11 14:58:21 EEST 2013


Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> 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? 

This is for pam_saml. The webmail sends a signed SAML assertion as the
password, and the PAM module validates it. 

You did support in in 1.x and it did not harm anyone...

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
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