authenticating user id with '@' character

[Gerard]

On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:36:45 +0200
Patrick Ben Koetter <p at state-of-mind.de> wrote:

> * 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.

BTW Brian. when you post to a mailing list the use of HTML is not
appreciated. It makes replying to and reading a post more difficult
than need be. You appear to be a "GMail" user. They have a "text"
switch that you should use just for this purpose.

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Gerard
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