Chris Ricker wrote: >On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Nalin Dahyabhai wrote: > > > >>On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 01:31:56PM -0400, Gerry Doris wrote: >> >> >>>Is there anyone successfully using sasl authentication with RH 8.0? >>> >>>It stopped working for me when I upgraded from 7.3. I haven't any idea >>>how to get it going again???? >>> >>> >>The server's running as user mailnull, group mail, so the permissions >>have to be set to allow it to read the /etc/sasldb file (IIRC it >>previously ran as the superuser, who can read any file on a local disk). >> >>If you make the file group-readable, you'll find that sendmail will balk >>at using it because it fails permission safety checks. You can override >>this check by adding >> O DontBlameSendmail=groupreadablesasldbfile >>to /etc/mail/sendmail.cf and restarting the sendmail service. >> >> > >Untested (I'm a postfix bigot ;-), but configuring sendmail to use >saslauthd, then running saslauthd and configuring it to use sasldb is >another possibility, and avoids the need to muck with permissions. > >Of course, I'm not even sure if RH ships saslauthd compiled to support >sasldb.... > >later, >chris > > > > > I made the change by including the line: define (`DontBlameSendmail', `groupreadablesasldbfile')dnl in sendmail.mc, rerunning the m4 macro, and restarting sendmail. If I the made change in sendmail.cf it would be trashed the next time I reran the m4 macro for some other fix and I wouldn't remember to put it back! In any case, this still generates the error message in maillog but the sasl functions do work. It has fixed serveral problems I was having inlcuding not being able to get access to the mail server's imap folders. Thanks!
