Re: [bug-anubis] AUTH with 3.9.95

[Jim Cheetham]

On Sep 13, 2004, at 9:39 PM, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> Jim Cheetham <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I'd like to use the same credentials supplied to Anubis to connect on 
> > to
> > the MTA. Failing that, I'd like Anubis to gather the credentials from 
> > a
> > database (in my case, the same one it used for AUTH originally) and 
> > use
> > them. Having the credentials exist in the rcfile isn't very tidy, or
> > manageable.
>
> This sounds reasonable. However, I'm not quite sure about "Failing 
> that"
> clause. Do you mean that Anubis should try a second AUTH attempt with
> other credentials if the first one has failed? Some servers (or system
> administrators :^)) may regard this as an account probe and raise a
> false alarm...
I agree with your objection - I phrased the original statement badly. I 
did not intend to suggest that Anubis tried to authenticate twice!

As one case, I'd like anubis to re-use the same credentials it accepted 
in the connection to the MTA. This will suffice to keep such data away 
from the rcfile.

I'd also like to consider the possibility of having Anubis lookup the 
MTA user/pass from the database, to get a different set of data. The 
idea being that you could have authid/passwd for Anubis, and 
MTAauthid/MTApasswd for the onward connection.

This second scenario will not likely to be very common - I doubt that I 
would use it myself, even.

-jim