-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 21 February 2004 6:01 am, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Sa, den 21.02.2004 schrieb Jonathan M. Gardner um 13:13: > > I'm playing around with authentication schemes with sendmail. > > > > I've noticed that the file /usr/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf is being > > completely ignored. No matter what I seem to put in that, sendmail > > checks /etc/sasldb2 for the password verification. > > > > If I use the saslpasswd2 utility, I can of course create an entry for > > the users. However, I would much rather use PAM than this method. > > > > Any hints? It seems Google is turning up blanks... > > Sendmail does not ignore /usr/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf! It is just you > confused about the authentification mechanisms. You can not > authenticate with MD5 mechanism when auting against PAM. Only PLAIN / > LOGIN will work that way. > Okay, I have the sendmail.mc file setup as so in my mail server: define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A p')dnl TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`LOGIN PLAIN')dnl define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `LOGIN PLAIN')dnl define(`confCACERT_PATH',`/usr/share/ssl/certs') define(`confCACERT',`/usr/share/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt') define(`confSERVER_CERT',`/usr/share/ssl/certs/sendmail.pem') define(`confSERVER_KEY',`/usr/share/ssl/certs/sendmail.pem') DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=0.0.0.0, Name=MTA')dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=submission, Name=MSA, M=Ea')dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtps, Name=TLSMTA, M=s')dnl On my mail server, /usr/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf reads: pwcheck_method:pam I am using KMail for the MUA on my workstation. I've set it up as so: Auth: LOGIN Encryption: TLS When it goes to authenticate, KMail displays the following messages: Sending failed: Authentication failed. Most likely the password is wrong. The server responded: "5.7.0 authentication failed" There is no message /var/log/messages from sendmail. - -- Jonathan Gardner jgardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAN6xoqp6r/MVGlwwRAvGYAJ9uwaVZRCCNSRokspzBBCbItZfYzACfdEvK AGg7U+k3wqOXrPeYu28Hg8k= =ONY1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
