Postfix & SASL Authentication

[Gerard Seibert]

Paul Schmehl wrote:

> Apparently you're using the sasldb2 database for logins?  If so, the 
> sasldb2 database needs to be readable by postfix, and it has to be 
> populated with the usernames at domains that you need.  Have you populated 
> the db?
> 
> You would probably be better off using saslauthd as your pwcheck_method. 
>   Then start saslauthd with the -a sasldb flag.  (See man 8 saslauthd.) 
>   Auxprop is an older method that wasn't very dependable.

Thanks, that is what I did. I had to modify the
/usr/local/lib/smtpd.conf file, but that was about it.

I do have one question though. The rc.d file has 'pam' listed rather
than sasldb for the '-a ' flag. I changed it there although the
directions said not too. Is there any reason that changing it in the rc.d
file is a bad thing? I could not figure out what it meant to do
otherwise. Was I suppose to create another file that would override that
one? If so, what was the syntax of the file suppose to be? Anyway, it
works, so that is all I am really interested in at the moment.

Ciao!

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Gerard Seibert
gerard at seibercom.net