authenticating user id with '@' character

[Patrick Ben Koetter]

* Gerard <cyrus-sasl at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>:
> > * 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.

Brians mail works for both worlds. Use a mail reader that allows to prefer
text over HTML. Mine does. I personally only object against mails that send
HTML only.

p at rick

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