Re: saslauthd with rimap + TLS/SSL imap server

Dan White <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.cyrus.sasl
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On 02/12/14 13:08 +0400, Boris Savelev wrote:
>Hello!
>
>Today I try to configure saslauthd with MECHANISMS="rimap".
>I run saslauthd with command:
>/usr/sbin/saslauthd -a rimap -O mail.local -r -c -m /var/run/saslauthd -n 5
>I use Dovecot 2 as IMAP server where plain-text auth via unencrypted
>channel doesn't allowed by default and turning it on is makes security
>hole. How I could configure saslauthd to use TLS/SSL with rimap?
>
>PS:
>saslauthd -v
>saslauthd 2.1.25
>authentication mechanisms: sasldb getpwent kerberos5 pam rimap shadow ldap

The rimap backend does not appear to support TLS, nor SASL (digest-md5)
authentication towards the IMAP server. stunnel (in client mode) may be a
work around for you.

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Dan White
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