From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: AUTH=PLAIN support
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 14:45:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y69eniij.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3wroyl5qv.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 31 Oct 2010 16:52:08 +0100")
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> writes:
>> It seems that the idea was to elimitate the LOGIN command on
>> STARTTLS-capable servers, but they still needed a plain-text passwd
>> option. And so created AUTH=PLAIN to cover that requirement.
> It seems kinda weird, though. AUTHENTICATE PLAIN is just basically a
> base64-encoded version of LOGIN, so I'm not quite understanding what the
> point is...
Passwords with trailing or embedded whitespace were causing all sorts of
problems with LOGIN. I suspect PLAIN may have more formalization around
character set issues, too.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-31 21:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-30 1:20 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-30 19:38 ` Tibor Simko
2010-10-30 19:41 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-30 20:22 ` Tibor Simko
2010-10-30 20:31 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-30 20:46 ` Tibor Simko
2010-10-30 22:37 ` James Cloos
2010-10-31 15:52 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-31 21:31 ` James Cloos
2010-10-31 21:45 ` Russ Allbery [this message]
2010-10-31 21:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-01 12:23 ` Tibor Simko
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