SASL 1 + SASL 2 + sendmail + cyrus21

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Tue Jan 28 12:51:32 EST 2003



Marcus Schopen wrote:
> 
> Hi Ken,
> 
> Ken Murchison wrote:
> >
> > Marcus Schopen wrote:
> >>I installed Henrique's ( http://people.debian.org/~hmh/ ) Debian woody
> >>backport for cyrus21.
> >>
> >>Problem is that Debain's sendmail is build with SASL 1 and cyrus21 comes
> >>with SASL 2. Now I have two different user databases. SASL 1 is used for
> >>sendmail's SMTP_AUTH, SASL 2 is used for cyrus21 authentification. Both
> >>SASL versions are working fine, but now I have to manage to differnet
> >>databases.
> >>
> >>Is there a way to authenticate sendmail and cyrus21 against the same
> >>user-database?
> >
> >
> > I ported Sendmail to use SASLv2 back around 8.12.4.  Its an undocumented
> > FFR and won't be officially supported until 8.13, but several people are
> > using it, including me.  You'll have to compile it yourself using a
> > config such as:
> >
> > APPENDDEF(`confENVDEF', `-DSASL=2')
> > APPENDDEF(`conf_sendmail_LIBS', `-lsasl2')
> 
> Hmmm, if I build sendmail myself, I have to leave Debain's package
> manager. That's what I wanted to avoid.
> 
> What about using something else but sasl for SMTP_AUTH and cyrus21
> authentification?


Nope.  Both use SASL.

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