[courier-users] Re: Splitting out PRE from AUTH

Johnny Lam wrote:
>
> I'm wondering if there is any interest in separating the
> "authentication" in courier-authlib into two parts -- "auth" and
> "account"? The "AUTH" and "PASSWD" messages would go to "auth" modules,
> and the "PRE" and "ENUMERATE" messages would go to "account" modules.
> The changes involved would be:
>
> (1) Modify the "AUTH" protocol to return "SUCCESS" instead of the result
> of a "PRE" request upon sucessfully authenticating a user/password
> combination.
>
> (2) Modify the auth_<type>() functions in each backend module to not
> return auth_<type>_pre(...) but rather just 1 or 0 depending on
> whether the user/password combination is good or not.

Apologies for the noise. I didn't read the source code carefully enough
and I see that this plan can't work, especially in the case where CRAM
is used.

I would still like to somehow separate the password verification from
the account info queries, but I will work on this idea further before
presenting again.

Cheers,

-- Johnny Lam <jlam@pkgsrc.org>


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