Sendmail and smtp-auth against passwd

Derek Ragona derek at computinginnovations.com
Mon Nov 27 11:28:17 PST 2006


That is an issue with the sasl configuration.  sasl can be configured to 
read passwords from different locations, including a database.  You may 
need to reconfigure sasl or even rebuild it.

         -Derek


At 09:20 PM 11/26/2006, Matthias Fechner wrote:
>Hi,
>
>i tried to get smtp-auth against the pass working but it is not
>work. I must add users with saslpasswd2 to the sasldb but I want to
>auth my smtp users with there "normal" password without the need to
>add them to an additional db.
>
>What I did is:
>Installed sasl2authd from the ports.
>
>/etc/make.conf:
># Add SMTP AUTH support to Sendmail
>SENDMAIL_CFLAGS+=   -I/usr/local/include -DSASL=2
>SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS+=  -L/usr/local/lib
>SENDMAIL_LDADD+=    -lsasl2
># Enable smtps for sendmail
>SENDMAIL_CFLAGS+= -D_FFR_SMTP_SSL
>SENDMAIL_MILTER_IN_BASE=yes
>And recompiled sendmail in base.
>
>Edit /usr/local/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf:
>pwcheck_method: saslauthd
>
>Enabled saslauth in rc.conf and start it:
>saslauthd_enable="yes"
>saslauthd_flags="-a getpwent"
>
>Edited my .mc file:
>dnl Enable smpt-auth
>FEATURE(authinfo')
>define(confDONT_BLAME_SENDMAIL',GroupReadableSASLDBFile')dnl
>define(confAUTH_MECHANISMS',LOGIN GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5')dnl
>define(confRUN_AS_USER',root:mail')dnl
>
>But it seems to me that sendmail isn't using saslauth instead it uses
>directly the sasldb so all thinks I configured in sasl2authd is useless.
>
>Has someone smtp-auth with sendmail against passwd running?
>
>Best regards,
>Matthias
>
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