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Subject: PAM for IMAP/POP
From: Chowdhury, Haider (RHaidernuesoft.com)
Date: Mon Jul 10 2000 - 09:30:52 CDT

I have put to work a Pluaggable Authentication Module (PAM) which
does authentication from MSSQL in NT. I would like to use this module for
POP/IMAP clients' authentication. It seems that the POP server first checks
the user in etc/passwd file then it goes to the /etc/pam.d/pop configuration
file to load the entry:

        auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_mssql.so
        account sufficient /lib/security/pam_mssql.so

        If the user is not an unix one the module should authenticate the
user from MSSQL Database. Which happens actually if the user is also defined
in unix (/etc/passwd). But for non-unix user it does not even load the
pam_mssql.so.

        I think this is the pop3d which makes getpwuid() call and checks the
unix user before making the pam_authenticate().

        Could any one of you please give idea whether we can use PAM for
pop/imap ? PAM LDAP and KERBEROS are there, whether those authentication
mechanism can be used for POP/IMAP ?

        Thanks.

        Razzakul Haider Chowdhury
        Database Developer
        Nuesoft.com 

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