authenticating user id with '@' character

[Patrick Ben Koetter]

* Brian Andrus <toomuchit at gmail.com>:
> Hello all.
> 
> New to the list because I am trying to find out if/how I can authenticate
> via sasl for accounts whose username has the '@' sign in them.
> 
> There are a number in our ldap directory, which do authenticate for ssh,
> ftp, etc however when I try setting up postfix, it will not authenticate. It
> seems to be breaking the username up into a realm as well.
> 
> So, is it possible to get sasl to authenticate using an email looking
> username against pam/ldap?

You use saslauthd, right? Add the additional switch "-r" and saslauthd will
pass the "@" and what follows.

If my blind guess did not help, send debug output to the Postfix Mailing list.
Use saslfinger (see my sig) to create a report.

p at rick

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