Am Mo, den 12.01.2004 schrieb William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209 um 06:51: > Hi all, > > On all servers running Fedora, whenever I use CRAM-MD5 to > authenticate, I fail because there's no /etc/saslauthdb2 file. I'd rather > just use PAM to authenticate. And, when I use PLAIN, I do. I have to > create the smtp file in /etc/pam.d by copying smtp.postfix. Does anyone > know what governs what authentication mechanism uses what underlying > method, saslauthdb2, pam, or shadow? The saslauthd file in sysconfig is > at its default, pam. > TIA. > Bill in Denver Hi Bill! For /etc/saslauthdb2: you have to self create this database if you want to use it. "saslpasswd2" is the required tool to do so. With "sasldblistusers2" you can print out it's content. Be sure that the sasl2 db has chmod 600 (read/write only for owner) and chown root.root (owned by root). On my system /etc/pam.d/smtp comes with the sendmail rpm. I use sendmail as MTA. Which authentication mechanism is used depends on the clients/programs configuration. For instance my sendmail MTA uses by default saslauthd which itself can be configured to use different mechanisms. But you can also tell sendmail to not use saslauthd but to call pam, shadow or the sasl(2) db directly. This is done in /usr/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf. I do not know whether it is with postfix equal but I think it needs to be configured in one of postfix's main configuration files directly. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany PGP key valid: made 13.07.1999 PGP fingerprint: 2307 88FD 2D41 038E 7416 14CD E197 6E88 ED69 5653
