[KLUG Members] SMTP Auth: Continued.

[Peter Buxton]

On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 12:50:52PM -0500, Adam Bultman wrote:

> So.  I've compiled sendmail.  I've compiled Cyrus SASL (no kerberos,
> with plain, login, and PAM). Sendmail compiled correctly, too, and I
> can authenticate with it if I give my user an sasl password. I can
> authenticate and send mail with Kmail. Yay!

So it works on localhost but not from outside? Does KMail use
LOGIN/PLAIN?

Does SASL's ./configure have options to turn on passwd/shadow methods?

> 2. I would like to use my shadow password to auth users intead of
> having a second SASL password.  /usr/lib/sasl/Sendmail.conf has in it:
> pwcheck_method: shadow

I would recommend PAM over shadow, but first... You've added users to
sasldb, apparently, and sendmail AUTH worked? But now, with SASL shadow,
it doesn't, correct?

> Dec 13 17:37:03 mail sendmail[15448]: gBDMY7SM015448: AUTH failure
> (plain): no mechanism available (-4) SASL(-4): no mechanism available:  Password verification failed

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