Auth fails partly for imap

[Johan Paul]

> Hi,

Hi!

> 
> We use plaintext over SSL. For pine to work we add the following line
> in the pine.conf
> 
> disable-these-authenticators=CRAM-MD5
> 
> Hope that helps. Use with care over insecure connections.

Hi!

That helped! Now I can log into my IMAP account even with Pine. I will 
use SSL to secure the authentication though.

Oddly though even the login from Pine worked after the initial 
installation and configuration of FreeBSD and all other applications. 
Now I moved the server from an internal network to the Internet and if I 
can remember correctly Pine failed after this move. Any ideas why the 
change of IP (and hostname) would cause this kind of behaviour? Have I 
missed some setting somewhere with PAM or something?

I have this in my /var/log/messages and it from the time the server was 
on the internal net:

Jul 25 18:39:50 silakka imapd[5956]: login: 
localhost.milkyway[127.0.0.1] kypeli CRAM-MD5 User logged in

This must be from Pine since Mozilla and webmail use plain text. Now I 
am even more confused :)

Best regards,
Johan Paul

> 
> Andrew.
> 
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 11:57:04AM -0400, Lucas Holt wrote:
> 
>>Historically, Netscape has not supported encrypted (even if it is weak) 
>>authentication for imap and pop3.  Slowly, they add standards as people 
>>complain.  I'm sure the mozilla project is no different.  I know for a 
>>fact that early builds of mozilla did not support cram md5.
>>
>>Basically, webmail and mozilla are sending clear text authentication.  
>>Pine is a bit smarter and uses cram md5.  Look through the pine 
>>preferences and see if you can downgrade it to clear text.  If not, 
>>there is probably a compile option to use cleartext.  (thats how they 
>>do it in imapd at least)
>>
>>On Sunday, July 27, 2003, at 11:12  AM, Johan Paul wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>What have I done wrong when I can log into my IMAP account 
>>>(cyrus-imapd-2.0.17) via Mozilla and web mail (Squirrelmail) but Pine 
>>>doesn't allow me to log in? I use PAM with MySQL authentication. This 
>>>is what I get to my log file (first when I log into with Mozilla from 
>>>a remote client, then Pine locally):
>>>
>>>-- 8< --
>>>Jul 27 18:04:27 silakka imapd[5665]: login: my.computer.foo[x.x.x.x] 
>>>kypeli plaintext
>>>
>>>Jul 27 18:05:09 silakka imapd[5685]: badlogin: 
>>>localhost.computer.foo[127.0.0.1] CRAM-MD5 authentication failure [no 
>>>secret in database]
>>>-- 8< --
>>>
>>>Why does Pine try to use CRAM-MD5 but Mozilla doesn't? I have 
>>>{localhost:143}inbox in Pine in inbox-path.
>>>
>>>Running FreeBSD 4.8.
>>>
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>
>>>Johan Paul
>>>
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