Unable to auth (saslauthd on Red Hat 7.3)

[Rob Siemborski]

On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Jonathan Marsden wrote:

> The socket location used by cyrus-imapd is the one compiled into the
> libsasl2.so shared library, as far as I can tell it is not directly
> set or used within the imapd code at all.  So there is no option to
> imapd to change it, either at run-time or at compile-time -- you'd
> need to recompile the sasl libraries.

This is not true.  Cyrus IMAP will pass options to the sasl library that
start with the sasl_ prefix.

The sasl library has an option "saslauthd_path".

So, in imapd.conf you can set something like:

sasl_saslauthd_path: /somewhere/else

Be sure to include the trailing /mux.

Also, this isn't as globally useful as you might think, since saslauthd
and libsasl should always agree on the default location.

-Rob

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