[KLUG Members] SuSE 9.0 Postfix (fwd)

[Adam Williams]

> > > > The reason I think it's a rights issue is because when I set the rights to 
> > > > mode 777 it works.
> > > > So, does anyone know what it should be?
> > > If you want to use saslauthd set -
> > > sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
> > > sasl_mech_list: PLAIN
> These settings are in /etc/imapd.conf already.
> > > and run saslauthd set to use PAM and you can authenticate with whatever
> > > else you use to authenticate users (WHICH BY THE WAY, IN ALL OF THIS,
> > > YOU HAVEN'T SAID HOW YOU AUTHENTICATE USERS CURRENTLY).
> I don't really know what I'm using. It's the default SuSE config.
> Franky, I just want to use which ever method is easiest. I only have 15 
> users

Then your using "files" (/etc/passwd, /etc/group, /etc/hosts, etc...)  
That corresponds to PAM module pam_pwdb (password database) or pam_unix.
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> Eventualy I'd like to use OpenLDAP for my user DB and auth against that. I 
> just haven't worked much on setting it up yet.

Right, one thing at a time.

> I've always just used passwd, uw-imap, and sendmail. I think LDAP, cyrus, 
> Postfix is a better combination but I didn't realize how much more you 
> have to configure! I'd like to be able to add a user to which ever user db 
> I'm using and have mail automaticaly setup for them. Is this possible? 
> With cyrus will I have to manually create a mailbox for every new user I 
> create?

No, you can autocreate the INBOX upon authentication, or a template of 
mailboxes (INBOX, INBOX.Sent, INBOX.Trash, and INBOX.SPAM, for instance)

> > in SuSE 9.0 you can set this in the saslauthd file in etc/sysconfig
> > SASLAUTHD_AUTHMECH=pam
> /etc/sysconfig is like this already.

And saslauthd is actually running? (Did that one myself once).