On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Keith Morse wrote: > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Mike Burger wrote: > > > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Klaasjan Brand wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've set up RH9+postfix as a mail server for a few domains. For a few > > > "roaming" users I'd like to set up SMTP relaying using SASL > > > authentication. Since RH9 comes with saslauthd from the cyrus sasl > > > package I assumed postfix would run with it. > > > I've added the following lines in /usr/lib/sasl/smtpd.conf: > > > pwcheck_method: saslauthd > > > mech_list: plain login > > > > > > If I try to relay a mail via the server it refuses to authorize the user: > > > Aug 29 13:10:22 server postfix/smtpd[19802]: warning: SASL > > > authentication problem: unrecognized plaintext verifier saslauthd > > > Aug 29 13:10:22 server postfix/smtpd[19802]: warning: > > > unknown[127.0.0.1]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed > > > > > > Saslauthd is running of course, but this looks like postfix doesn't > > > support it. Does this mean I have to rebuild postfix with saslauthd support? > > > > 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: > > > > 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. > > > Just curious, should sasl show up in the output of "postconf -m" ? I don't think so. postconf -m shows the list of database types thta postfix can read, directly. It should show up in the output of postconf -n, though. -- 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