[Gllug] Weirdness with uw-imapd and Squirrelmail

[David Pashley]

On Apr 04, 2003 at 16:31, Rev Simon Rumble praised the llamas by saying:
> Ahh, I've worked it out.  Turns out cram-MD5 requires a seperate file
> for authentication.  That's rather dumb!
> 
Not particularly, as CRAM-MD5 auth requires the server to contain the
password in cleartext. In return you never send the password over the
wire. This means that you can't use /etc/shadow or /etc/passwd for
CRAM-MD5 auth.



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