On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Klaasjan Brand wrote: > Mike Burger wrote: > > > > >What I've always found is that postfix can't access the pam authentication > >schemes if it's running in its normal chroot jail. > > > > > 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... > > >Go into your /etc/postfix/master.cf file, and edit it so that you see the > >smtp line look like this: > > > >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. > > > 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... > Aug 29 14:39:41 server postfix/smtpd[20094]: lost connection after AUTH > from localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1] I'm running postfix-1.1.13, with Cyrus sasl 1.5.28, and that's how mine's configured. What does the SASL portion of your main.cf file read? -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 To be notified of updates to the web site, send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list