SMTP-Auth and Postfix

[Roger Grosswiler]

> Am Fr, den 07.05.2004 schrieb Roger Grosswiler um 10:52:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> i installed smtp-auth for postfix via saslauthd. it seems to work properly, unfortunately i can only check on a
>> webclient now (squirrelmail). i indicated squirrel to do smtp authentication. what i get is the following error:
>
> You can check whether SMTP AUTH works using telnet. On how to do so and
> the whole topic with Postfix you can find big help on:
>
> http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/smtpauth/smtp_auth_mailclients.html
>
>> May  7 10:25:01 link saslauthd[17730]: do_auth         : auth failure: [user=rogerg] [service=smtp] [realm=]
>> [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error]
>>
>> somehow, i think, my password is not delivered...but not sure.. do you have any idea? ah, yeah i do authenticate via
>> mech=PAM
>
> Setting up saslauthd to use shadow as MECH, will it work then?
>
> echo "MECH=shadow" > /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd
> service saslauthd restart
>
>> Thanks for any help!
>> Roger
>
> Alexander

Hi,

i've tried this out and changed the mode from pam to shadown in /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd - it works. So, it must be
something wrong with pam in this case...the mentionned link in this mail showed, that the file smtp in /etc/pam.d ist
missing and that you just should copy smtp.postfix to smtp - thats it. i did it - and now it works fine - with pam...

Thanks a lot
Roger