On Sun, 9 Jan 2011, jonr@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I cannot wrap my mind around saslauthd and auxprop. > > Does auxprop use the sasldb file to authenticate users that have been > added using the 'saslpasswd2' command? > > What is saslauthd trying to use for authentication, would it be the > mechs shown in a 'saslauthd -v' output? > > What does changing the value in the Sendmail.conf file from saslauthd > to auxprop or vice versa doing? > > Running a ps I see that saslauthd is using the shadow mech: > > /usr/sbin/saslauthd -m /var/run/saslauthd -a shadow > > But I have no users in the shadow file other than cyrus and my users > for my mail server are in the sasldb file? > > > I have read the documentation on the cyrus site, the man pages and > searched the mailing list but I still cannot grasp what seems to be a > simple concept. > > Can someone shed some light or at least point me in the right direction? Hopefully I get this right! There are basically 2 high-level choices to make: saslauthd or auxprop. saslauthd is an external daemon process that your program communicates with via a unix socket. auxprop uses C library modules that are loaded by libsasl into your program. saslauthd support a few different authentication mechanisms. The most popular are PAM and passwd/shadow. Auxprop is usually used for sasldb, but I think there are several different modules that can be used. I'm fuzzy on auxprop so maybe someone else can fill in more detail here. Andy ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
