Auth options

A number of options may be set under the  group to affect authentication in general.

For debugging of authentication, see also the  option. For the format for addresses used in authentication, see also the   and   Base options and   IMAP, POP, and MMP et al. option.

Caching of authentication results is controlled by the  and    Base options.

Regarding client certificate based authentication, see also the Base certmap options.

For configuration of authentication use for SMTP message submission, see TLS and SASL channel options and Password and TLS MTA options and the  mapping table.

For tracking and penalization of "bad guy" failed authentication attempts, see the   options such as , settable at Base, IMAP, POP,  and  IMAP Proxy and POP Proxy levels. Or for monitoring or penalizing failed SMTP AUTH attempts, see various example uses of the  mapping table.

See also the   option available under ,  , and.

See also:
 * authenticationldapattributes Option
 * authenticationserver Option
 * auto_transition Option
 * broken_client_login_charset Option
 * canonicalsearchfilter Option
 * has_plain_passwords Option
 * requireauthenticationserver Option
 * searchfilter Option
 * searchfordomain Option
 * usedomainmap Option
 * debugkeys Option
 * ldap_domain_attr_uid_separator Option
 * loginseparator Option
 * defaultdomain Option
 * authcachesize Option
 * authcachettl Option
 * Base certmap options
 * TLS and SASL channel options
 * Password and TLS MTA options
 * AUTH_ACCESS mapping table
 * AUTH_DEACCESS mapping table
 * bgpenalty Option
 * Triggering effects from transaction logging with LOG_ACTION
 * allowanonymouslogin Option