dovecot - Feb 2003 - 0.99.8-test7

OK, I really should release 0.99.8 final soon, but not just yet :)
Mostly just documentation updates left I think. There's a few recent
changes that might have some nasty bugs:

- problems with copying messages from mbox to another should be fixed
now
- LIST and subscription handling rewritten.
- "mail_read_mmaped = no" used to corrupt mboxes when expunging
messages. It now enabled again by default, and it seems to be working. I
did update my backups though :)

Dovecot's LDAP support currently requires that it can read the
userPassword field of every user. I'm not sure if I should support 
"authentication binds" that seems to be more standard way to do LDAP
authentication. That's just slower, works only with plaintext
authentication and makes my code more complex.

On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 20:06, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> Dovecot's LDAP support currently requires that it can read the
> userPassword field of every user. I'm not sure if I should support 
> "authentication binds" that seems to be more standard way to do
LDAP
> authentication. That's just slower, works only with plaintext
> authentication and makes my code more complex.
authentication binds are the only "across the board" method for
authenticating users i know of. yes, they are slow. suppose i'm
authenticating against active directory. i know of no way to expose the
userPassword attribute in ad. personally, i wouldn't go near ad, but i
don't really have much of a choice in the matter. at best, you could
probably get compare rights. authentication binds mean i can support
whatever hashing mechanism my ldap server supports without exposing the
value itself.

d!
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