From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/73752 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: AUTH=PLAIN support Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 14:45:40 -0700 Organization: The Eyrie Message-ID: <87y69eniij.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> References: <871v77fp3p.fsf@pcuds33.cern.ch> <87pqure8hr.fsf@pcuds33.cern.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1288561591 15365 80.91.229.12 (31 Oct 2010 21:46:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 21:46:31 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M22121@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Oct 31 22:46:27 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PCfjO-0004Xo-9C for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 22:46:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PCfjG-00043r-BK; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 16:46:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PCfjE-00043a-LX for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 16:46:16 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PCfjA-0001iw-MZ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 16:46:16 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp2.stanford.edu ([171.67.219.82] helo=smtp.stanford.edu) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1PCfj9-0007tb-00 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 22:46:11 +0100 Original-Received: from smtp.stanford.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id F11BF170BED for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 14:45:40 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (windlord.Stanford.EDU [171.67.225.134]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.stanford.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D99A3170BE2 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 14:45:40 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by windlord.stanford.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B17F42F4F2; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 14:45:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 31 Oct 2010 16:52:08 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:73752 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > James Cloos 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)