Cyrus-SASL + Sendmail (FC1)

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Sa, den 21.02.2004 schrieb Jonathan M. Gardner um 13:13:

> I'm playing around with authentication schemes with sendmail.
> 
> I've noticed that the file /usr/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf is being 
> completely ignored. No matter what I seem to put in that, sendmail 
> checks /etc/sasldb2 for the password verification.
> 
> If I use the saslpasswd2 utility, I can of course create an entry for the 
> users. However, I would much rather use PAM than this method.
> 
> Any hints? It seems Google is turning up blanks...

Sendmail does not ignore /usr/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf! It is just you
confused about the authentification mechanisms. You can not authenticate
with MD5 mechanism when auting against PAM. Only PLAIN / LOGIN will work
that way.

For more specific answers more input would be necessary.

Alexander


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