Re: Passwords containing backslash - problem.

["Lauro Costa G. Borges" <laurocgb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Citando Dan White <dwhite@xxxxxxx>:

> On 20/07/11 09:46 -0500, Dan White wrote:
> > On 20/07/11 10:50 -0300, Lauro Costa G. Borges wrote:
> > > > > Does saslauthd handle backslashes ok for the rest of you? Cause it
> > > > > doesn't seem to handle it with testsaslauthd or as a Postfix auth daemon.
> > > >
> > > > I can't reproduce this problem while using the PAM backend. Which  
> > > >  saslauthd
> > > > backend are you using? If relevant, what sasl configuration is your imap
> > > > server using?
> > > >
> > > > Both of these work for me:
> > > >
> > > > testsaslauthd -u username -p 'test\1234'
> > > > testsaslauthd -u username -p test\\1234
> > > >
> > > > Where the password is:
> > > >
> > > > test\1234
> > >
> > > Saslauthd at the smtp server uses RIMAP as the backend, and the   
> > > remote imap server to which it connects (Dovecot) does not use   
> > > saslauthd, it uses LDAP. As I said before, this imap server can   
> > > understand backslashes in the password, since I successfully   
> > > authenticated on it using telnet.
> >
> > I can reproduce the problem while using the rimap backend.
> >
> > I've filed the following bug report:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.cyrusimap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3493

 Thanks for that. I will monitor the bug report.

 I tested using testsaslauthd and single quotes, it worked, but using  
RIMAP backend it still doesn't work. So I guess these were two  
different problems: RIMAP backend problem and testsaslauthd usage  
problem (single quotes vs double quotes).

 Thanks

> Also, saslauthd has an ldap backend you may want to use, as a work around.
> See doc/LDAP_SASLAUTHD in the sasl source for configuration documentation.
>
> --
> Dan White



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