[KLUG Members] relaying denied

Adam Williams members@kalamazoolinux.org
Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:37:27 -0400


> > If you start the saslauthd service you can also authenticate users via
> > PAM, LDAP, whatever.... and not have to maintain
> > yet-another-authentication-repository.   You can also of course use
> > GSSAPI (Kerberos V).
> > > I'm  building a new home server with cyrus sasl2, and it's pretty slick.  
> > > It'll pop up the password window, auth you, etc.
> I was trying to get it to use PAM, and shadow, but it was being too big of 
> a pain in the butt.  I'm trying to come up with a good way for AUTH in 
> qmail, so I can convert to qmail.

Set MECH="pam" and FLAGS={whatever} in /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd

chkconfig saslauthd on
service saslauthd start

And you should have SASL via PAM.  At least on RH9,  I think before 9
only SASL 1.x was included although RPMS of SASL 2.x are easy to come
by.
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