[tpop3d-discuss] tpop3d v1.4.1pre4

Prune prune at lecentre.net
Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:25:21 +0100


Hi,

big big problem :
I can't find any README.auth_ldap
In fact, it should be my duty....
Would you like me to do it ? (with my poor english ?)

Cheers,

Prune (still happy)

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.
>