Cyrus + Postfix + SASL

[mkondrin at post.hppi.troitsk.ru]

Tiron Adrian wrote:
> Hello,
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> I have already installed postfix using sasl.
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> Saslauthd is ran like this:
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> /usr/sbin/saslauthd -m /var/run/saslauthd -a shadow
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First, you must be sure that postfix and imapd, which are usually run 
under non-root accounts, have enough rights to read and write to 
/var/run/saslauthd directory.
> The problem is that now i'm following the Postfix-Cyrus-Web-cyradm-HOWTO and it says that in the init script for cyrus should be something like this:
> /usr/local/sbin/saslauthd -c -a pam& , so I should use the pam mechanism.
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Both postfix and cyrus must be instructed to use saslauthd when checking 
passwords. For postfix this is done with file /usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf:

pwcheck_method: saslauthd
mech_list: plain login

For cyrus this is done by editing the file /etc/imapd.conf but the 
options are named differently- sasl_pwcheck_method and sasl_mech_list.
How the saslauthd would check passwords depends on -a option and your 
installation. Some linux distributions hasn't PAM so it would be safer 
to use "-a shadow".
> Anyway the idea is that all programs using sasl should use the same mechanism right?What should i do?
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> Cheers,
> A.
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usr/sbin/saslauthd -m /var/run/saslauthd -a shadow