problem with Mandrake 10.0

[Mike O'Rourke]

Alain-Serge Nagni <akenaton at freesurf.ch> 09/04/04 11:28am
>Hello Mike,
>> 1. What does your saslauthd.conf file look like (I don't know where
it
>> is in Mandrake; possibly /usr/local/etc/saslauthd.conf or
>> /etc/saslauthd.conf or somewhere else under /etc)?
>
>here is the contain of the saslauthd file: 
>		
>		SASL_AUTHMECH=PAM
>		SASL_MECH_OPTIONS=
>		SASLAUTHD_OPTS=
>

Since you are using PAM, you need to look at the contents of
/etc/pam.d/* (imap, pop,smpt, etc.) to determine the sequence of where
they are looking for login information. For instance, thke a look at
/etc/pam.d/imap. If that does not exist, look at /etc/pam.d/other to
see. They may not even be trying to use sasldb.

>> 2. If you want to use only sasldb for authentication, why use
>> saslauthd? Why not use the auxprop method with the sasldb plugin?
>I'm just doing like an found on web. But if there is a better please
let me 
>know.
>

The PAM mech is good if you want to be able to check passwords against
/etc/passwd (shadow) or from one of several sources (passwd, LDAP, NIS,
etc). If you want to keep all of your IMAP/POP/SMTP users in sasldb
though, change your /etc/imapd.conf entries to use auxprop:

sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop
sasl_auxprop_plugin: sasldb

you could even use:

sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop saslauthd
sasl_auxprop_plugin: sasldb

to first try sasldb and then on a failure check using saslauthd.

Other config files (Sendmail.conf, etc) would need to be changed
accordingly.

Mike.

>
>Best regards,
>Alain-Serge
>
>
>On Saturday 04 September 2004 10:26, you wrote:
>> Alain-Serge Nagni <akenaton at freesurf.ch> 09/04/04 09:52am
>>
>> >Hello,
>> >	I have a problem using cyrus-sasl with Mandrake. Since I'm
using
>>
>> Mandrake
>>
>> >10.0 (I was using Mandrake 9.2), it's impossible to get cyrus-sasl
to
>>
>> work
>>
>> >correctly: when I add a new account and try to test it, it doesn't
>>
>> work. Here
>>
>> >is an example:
>> >
>> >
>> >[root at www /]# saslpasswd2 -c test
>> >Password:
>> >Again (for verification):
>> >[root at www /]#
>> >[root at www /]# sasldblistusers2
>> >test at www.mydomain.com: userPassword
>> >cyrus at www.mydomain.com: userPassword
>> >[root at www /]#
>> >[root at www /]# testsaslauthd -u test -p testpassword
>> >0: NO "authentication failed"
>> >[root at www /]#
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >The administrator cyrus is the onlyone with whom the testsaslauthd
>>
>> works.
>>
>> >Example:
>> >
>> >[root at www /]# testsaslauthd -u cyrus -p cyruspassword
>> >0: OK "Success."
>> >[root at www /]#
>> >
>> >
>> >I'm being working on this problem for a week now . Do anyone faced
>>
>> this
>>
>> >problem? Should I go back to Mandrake 9.x?
>> >
>> >
>> >Best regards,
>> >Alain-Serge
>> >---
>>
>> 1. What does your saslauthd.conf file look like (I don't know where
it
>> is in Mandrake; possibly /usr/local/etc/saslauthd.conf or
>> /etc/saslauthd.conf or somewhere else under /etc)?
>>
>> 2. If you want to use only sasldb for authentication, why use
>> saslauthd? Why not use the auxprop method with the sasldb plugin?
>>
>> Mike.

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