Sendmail/Dovecot Login Authentication With Cyrus-Sasl v2?

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 16 March 2006 16:38, Justin Willmert wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > The default FC4 smtp/pop3 login authentication (sendmail auth login and
> > dovecot login = pop3) will check userid/password against the password
> > file located at /etc/passwd.  I am just wondering if it is possible to
> > modify the configuration parameters such that the login authentication
> > can check userid/password against the password file, /etc/sasldb2,
> > created via saslpasswd2(cyrus-sasl v2).
> >
> > I have just made a fresh installation of FC4 with package group
> > selection of everything.  My Sendmail/Dovecot configuration parameters
> > are modified from the defaults as follows.
> > /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
> > define(`confLOG_LEVEL', `15')dnl
> > define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A')dnl
> > TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
> > define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
> > dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl
> > dnl FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains')dnl
> >
> > /etc/dovecot.conf
> > protocols = pop3
> > login = pop3
> > login_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
> > pop3_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3
> >
> > Thank you in advance.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Ciba LO<cibalo at gmx.co.uk>
> >
> >
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> I'd suggest looking into PAM authentication. I've got my whole system
> authenticating to an LDAP database. If I remember correctly (I'm not at
> home so I can't look this up on my computer), you can run authconfig and
> select SASL as one of the authentication methods. I think Dovecot
> authenticates through PAM by default, so it should be ready to go if you
> do that.
>
Check out the documentation on the dovecot website - it's good.

Anne
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