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

Emmanuel Dreyfus manu at netbsd.org
Thu Apr 11 15:57:45 EEST 2013


On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 02:54:01PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > This is for pam_saml. The webmail sends a signed SAML assertion as the
> > password, and the PAM module validates it. 
> The pam_saml could easily be changed to use AUTHENTICATE PLAIN instead.

pam_saml is not the component that choose the authentication. The webmail
does. Squirrelmail does not support PLAIN.

> > You did support in in 1.x and it did not harm anyone?
> It does make it easier to waste the (pre-login!) process memory usage.

Perhaps it could be configurable?

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu at netbsd.org


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