Subject: [Simple] Basic authentication

From: "Griff James" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 08:16:50 +0100

I am new to the mailing list, so please excuse me if I have missed something obvious.

RFC3261 removed the use of basic authentication and only allows digest authentication.

Many messaging systems such as the Gordano Messaging Server, Exchange etc allow users to be authenticated via external databases e.g. NTSAM.
This means that a plain text password is not available to perform digest authentication at the server side.

The SIP RFC does not seem provide a means of user authentication when the plain text password is not available.

Is there another method which can be used for user level authentication without breaking the standard ?

Griff