On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 19:51 -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > This may be OT, but I'm going to try anyway... I have an old server > which originally had SASL installed on it and sendmail > compiled/configured to use (PLAIN LOGIN) authentication (NOT SASL). > That server also uses NIS to get the user account information from > another machine. Everything works. > > Now, I'm trying to move everything to a new server which has SASL2 > installed. I configured sendmail to use SASL2, and the machine is also > using NIS like the old one. The problem now is that it's requiring me > to actually use the sasldb file and set up the users individually. I > didn't have to do that on the old machine. It authenticated against the > password file (which was being imported by NIS.) But I can't figure out > why it won't work on the new one. All the config files are the same, > all the sendmail files are configured the same. So why is it forcing me > to use the sasldb? I have pam set up to use LDAP rather than NIS but the sendmail config should be the same: /usr/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf: pwcheck_method:saslauthd In /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd make sure you have "MECH=pam" Make sure you have the cyrus-sasl-plain package installed. Make sure saslauthd is running. The relevant snippets from sendmail.mc: define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS',`LOGIN PLAIN')dnl TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`LOGIN PLAIN')dnl Paul.
