[tpop3d-discuss] APOP from flat files

[Chris Lightfoot]

On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 03:50:30AM +0000, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 11:49:42PM +0000, Chris Lightfoot wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 11:41:19PM +0000, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 08:45:49PM +0000, Chris Lightfoot wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 08:29:17PM +0000, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> > > > > Perhaps I'm being dense, but is this possible? Are people only using
> > > > > APOP with MySQL/perl/other?
> > > 
> > > Still wondering here - what are the data sources available for those
> > > wanting APOP?
> > 
> > No, you're correct: there's no support in any of the other
> > authenticators. There's an example auth-other script in
> > scripts/ to allow individual UNIX users to authenticate
> > against a password ~/.mailauth or similar.
> 
> After I sent you those patches I realised the system I'm doing this all
> for uses /etc/passwd to verify the user exists & divine their uid/gid,
> and then consults some other database (G?DBM as explained) for the
> passwords. This is qpopper's behaviour.
    [...]
> So first obvious thing that occurs to me an APOP database directive that
> is possibly prefixed with something like exim's dbm; syntax.
> 
> Thoughts?

(a) that's horrid.

(b) it's also what auth-perl/other are for, I think.


It would be worth putting in if this were a common case,
but it's a bit nasty and special case. But a script to
implement it would be welcome :)


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