Confused about auxprop/sasldb - answer

[Matthew Mallard]

I did manage to  find the answer to my question in SASL install docs
i.e. I needed to set SASL_PATH before running master to tell SASL where 
the plugins were.  I missed this when reading them earlier.

Regards,
Matthew

On Wednesday, August 13, 2003, at 02:24  PM, Matthew Mallard wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get cyrus-sasl-2.1.15 and cyrus-imapd-2.1.14 working 
> using the sasldb for authentication.  I have managed to get 
> authentication working with saslauthd and pam, but I don't want to set 
> the mail users up with logins.
>
> The /etc/imapd.conf contains:
> sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop
> sasl_auxprop_plugin: sasldb
>
> When I use the imtest application it says user cannot be found and the 
> syslog reports:
> Aug 12 22:48:30 solaris imapd[19895]: [ID 702911 auth.debug] could not 
> find auxprop plugin, was searching for 'sasldb'
>
> A listing of the sasldb file is
> -rw-r-----   1 cyrus    mail       24576 Aug 12 18:14 /etc/sasldb2
>
> I am using Solaris 9 and have installed both imapd and sasl in 
> '/opt/cyrus'. The directory /opt/cyrus/lib/sasl2/ contains:
> libanonymous.la         libdigestmd5.so         libplain.la
> libanonymous.so         libdigestmd5.so.2       libplain.so
> libanonymous.so.2       libdigestmd5.so.2.0.15  libplain.so.2
> libanonymous.so.2.0.15  libgssapiv2.a           libplain.so.2.0.15
> libcrammd5.la           libgssapiv2.la          libsasldb.la
> libcrammd5.so           libotp.la               libsasldb.so
> libcrammd5.so.2         libotp.so               libsasldb.so.2
> libcrammd5.so.2.0.15    libotp.so.2             libsasldb.so.2.0.15
> libdigestmd5.la         libotp.so.2.0.15
> which is where it'd be looking for plugins (and sasldb is there) - if 
> I'm interpreting correctly.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Matthew
>