SMTP AUTH and sasl

Hi,

This has been answered a million times before (ref. google), but I just
can't get it to work.

I am running Fedora I, with stock standard sasl install (didn't recompile
it). Saslauthd is running -a shadow as root.

/usr/local/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf:
pwcheck_method: saslauthd
mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN

Now, with the plain and login it works, but I want to use cramd and md5 and
all the other wonderful methods as well.

As soon as I enable them (or remove the mech_list from smtpd.conf), the
client fails all authentications, until it eventually falls back to PLAIN -
which then auths fine.

OK, the problem is that sasl moans that it can't open /etc/sasldb2. I don't
_want_ it to do sasldb authentication. Why is it insisting on checking the
db?

If I create a sasldb2 file with a valid user and password and realm, it
fails saying "no secret found". Which is true, there is no entry for my
user in my sasldb2, but I don't _want_ there to be one.

All I want is normal saslauthd with shadow lookups without any error
messages in my log files :/

(I'm not running chrooted)

I have been googling and trying for 2 days, please help :)
Regards,
Andi

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