Re: NTLM Auth

Simon Horman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.perdition.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 11:22:55AM +0000, Hugo Monteiro wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I'm in the process of deploying a perdition imap proxy to an exchange 
> server. ATM there is a M$ proxy server installed that i wish to replace.
> All clients, Outlook in a vast majority, have SPA enabled that 
> translates to NTLM auth. I have changed the CAPABILITY string to meet 
> exchanges CAPs and i'm also not doing any authentication_in, i.e. all 
> auth is performed in the backend exchange server.
> ... But it's not working. I can see in the logs the following:
> 
> Dec  7 11:16:10 mail-proxy perdition[5863]: SSL connection using AES256-SHA
> Dec  7 11:16:10 mail-proxy perdition[5863]: SELF:   "* OK IMAP4 Ready 
> mail-proxy 0001e283\r\n"
> Dec  7 11:16:10 mail-proxy perdition[5863]: CLIENT: "1 capability\r\n"
> Dec  7 11:16:10 mail-proxy perdition[5863]: SELF:   "* CAPABILITY IMAP4 
> IMAP4rev1 AUTH=NTLM AUTH=GSSAPI AUTH=PLAIN IDLE NAMESPACE LITERAL+\r\n"
> Dec  7 11:16:10 mail-proxy perdition[5863]: SELF:   "1 OK CAPABILITY\r\n"
> Dec  7 11:16:10 mail-proxy perdition[5863]: CLIENT: "3 authenticate 
> NTLM\r\n"
> Dec  7 11:16:10 mail-proxy perdition[5863]: SELF:   "3 NO AUTHENTICATE 
> mechanism not supported, mate\r\n"
> 
> Is this type of connection not supported at all, or am i missing anything?
> 
> Note: Not supporting this type of authentication will turn into a major 
> helpdesk overhead since there will be a lot of clients to be reconfigured.

Hi Hugo,

Unfortunately perdition does not support NTLM authentication at this time.
Actually, at this stage it only supports AUTH=PLAIN for IMAP.

I would be more than happy to look review patches to add this feature.
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