How can i tell SASL2 to stop using /etc/sasldb2 ?

[Patrick Ben Koetter]

* Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens at gmail.com>:
> On 7/29/07, Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Making progress now
> >
> > SASL per-process initialization failed
> > process /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd pid 5790 exit status 1
> > usr/lib/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling
> >
> > So i can assume that it finds the smtpd.conf file but doesn't like it
> >
> > /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf
> > pwcheck_method: auxprop
> > auxprop_plugin: sql
> > mech_list: login plain cram-md5 digest-md5 ntlm
> > sql_engine: mysql
> > sql_user: dbmail
> > sql_passwd:
> > sql_database: dbmail
> > sql_statement: SELECT passwd FROM dbmail_users WHERE userid = '%u'
> > log_level: 7
> >
> 
> Ok i finaly found out what it was "sql_passwd:" can not be a blank
> password it has to be a word like "sql_passwd: grrrrrrrr". Also
> changed sql_statement to sql_select , don't know if it matters.
> 
> I now have no more "initialization failed" and also no more "can not
> find /etc/sasl2db"
> But my sql databases is still not receiving a query
> 
> Any suggestions please ?

Create a symlink from /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf to
/usr/lib/sasl2/sample.comf.
Then use "server" and "client" from the Cyrus SASL project to test
authentication directly and without Postfix interfering.

p at rick

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