Sendmail AUTH

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Do, den 04.08.2005 schrieb Justin Willmert um 17:40:

Please do not top-post and quote the full previous mail unstripped.

> OK, I tried one more alternative, and it worked for some reason. I 
> changed /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd so that the 'MECH' line equaled 'pam' 
> instead of 'shadow'. Then I changed /usr/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf to 
> equal 'saslauthd' instead of 'pam'. I tried it with this system, and it 
> worked.

Please see the reply I just sent out. You corrected your setup. The MECH
change is not required, but possible.

> Now I'd like to know *why* doesn't the Sendmail.conf file work alone if 
> so many of the sites I've looked over only mentioned Sendmail.conf, 
> never once hitting on the idea of saslauthd file. I've only found one 
> site that suggested the method that worked for me. Could somebody tell 
> me a reason, and if nobody can get me a reason, should this be reported 
> as a bug to Bugzilla?

The sites you found in www are older and just reflect the old SASL
version 1.5. SASL version 2 changed. It is NO bug! SASLv2 requires
Sendmail.conf (or smtpd.conf for Postfix) to be set to either
pwcheck_method=saslauthd or pwcheck_method=auxprop.

> Justin

Alexander


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