Re: Postfix smtpd's saslauthd setting

* Jack Twilley <jmt@twilley.org> [041006 09:20]:
> >What does /usr/local/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf read?
> >
> >p@rick
> >
> $ cat /usr/local/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf
> pwcheck_method: saslauthd
> $ grep pwcheck_method /usr/local/etc/imapd.conf
> sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
> $
>
> I said as much in my first post on the topic.
>
> If they're both the same setting, why two different behaviors?

You want to use sasldb, but not POSIX accounts right?

There's two way to have SASL use sasldb. Either through saslauthd, which
is limited to plaintext mechs or through auxprop:sasldb, which gives you
plaintext and shared-secret mechs. I recommend auxprop.

A good reason why it does not work with Postfix is Postfix running
chrooted thus not finding smtpd.conf, which causes it to fall back to
defaults that do not work (in this case).

Does Postfix run chrooted?

p@rick




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