> Am Fr, den 07.05.2004 schrieb Roger Grosswiler um 10:52: > >> Hi, >> >> i installed smtp-auth for postfix via saslauthd. it seems to work properly, unfortunately i can only check on a >> webclient now (squirrelmail). i indicated squirrel to do smtp authentication. what i get is the following error: > > You can check whether SMTP AUTH works using telnet. On how to do so and > the whole topic with Postfix you can find big help on: > > http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/smtpauth/smtp_auth_mailclients.html > >> May 7 10:25:01 link saslauthd[17730]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=rogerg] [service=smtp] [realm=] >> [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error] >> >> somehow, i think, my password is not delivered...but not sure.. do you have any idea? ah, yeah i do authenticate via >> mech=PAM > > Setting up saslauthd to use shadow as MECH, will it work then? > > echo "MECH=shadow" > /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd > service saslauthd restart > >> Thanks for any help! >> Roger > > Alexander Hi, i've tried this out and changed the mode from pam to shadown in /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd - it works. So, it must be something wrong with pam in this case...the mentionned link in this mail showed, that the file smtp in /etc/pam.d ist missing and that you just should copy smtp.postfix to smtp - thats it. i did it - and now it works fine - with pam... Thanks a lot Roger
