[tpop3d-discuss] tpop3d v1.4.1pre4
Prune
Prune at lecentre.net
Sun, 24 Feb 2002 19:53:08 +0100
YES !!
:)
I'll check it tonight and maybe add the first patch, as I had new
ideas.... :)
wait and see....
Prune
Chris Lightfoot wrote:
> http://www.ex-parrot.com/~chris/tpop3d/tpop3d-1.4.1pre4.tar.gz
>
>This version incorporates auth-ldap and a fix to the BSD
>metadata cache code. In order to cleanly integrate the new
>authentication code, there has been a slight semantic
>change to the operation of authentication in tpop3d. This
>is explained more fully in the tpop3d.conf man page in the
>new distribution, but basically--
>
> - previously, users had a `username' which under some
> circumstances would be interpreted as a
> local-part@domain string and used for
> authentication; it was up to individual
> authenticators to do this parsing.
>
> - If append-domain was switched on, then a username
> without a separator might be passed to
> authenticators with an @domain suffix.
>
> - Now, the concept of a local-part separate from a
> username is maintained throughout the code.
> `Username' always refers to the string which the
> client supplied.
>
> - If a client supplies a string with no separator in
> it, and append-domain is not switched on, then no
> local-part is generated and only a username and
> domain are passed to authenticators.
>
> - If append-domain is switched on, then the username
> is also used as the local-part when authentication
> is retried.
>
> - If there is a separator in the username, then the
> local-part and domain specified replace those
> derived by other means.
>