According to to "howto" on http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/smtpauth/index.html, the saslauthd process does the password lookups (and runs as root), while the postfix process just connects to the saslauthd process... I'd been hoping this combination would work out of the box...
What I've always found is that postfix can't access the pam authentication schemes if it's running in its normal chroot jail.
Go into your /etc/postfix/master.cf file, and edit it so that you see the smtp line look like this:I've tried this, but it doesn't change a thing. Also, reconfiguring postfix to use pam directly via sasl didn't help. The error message I got is even more confusing...
smtp inet n - n - - smtpd
The second "n" takes the one part out of the chroot jail, so that it can properly talk to the pam system.
Aug 29 14:39:41 server postfix/smtpd[20094]: lost connection after AUTH from localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1]
Klaasjan
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