Making Cyrus use the saslpasswd?

[Edward Corrado]

It is set to: MECH=shadow

Edward


Thomas Börnert said the following on 8/1/2005 11:40 AM:

>please have a look to your saslauthd start script, there is an entry
>with MECH=
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>-Thomas
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>On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 11:37 -0400, Edward Corrado wrote:
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>>I believe that it is currently going through PAM, which in turn looks at 
>>the systems passwd files.
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>>Edward
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>>Thomas Börnert said the following on 8/1/2005 11:30 AM:
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>>>which method uses your saslauthd ? i think its pam in your case ...
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>>>On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 11:06 -0400, Edward Corrado wrote:
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>>>>Hello All,
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>>>>I have a Cyrus IMAP install (2.1.x on RH 9 with Fedora Legacy updates) 
>>>>and when someone checks there mail, it is authenticating against the 
>>>>password in /etc/passwd (well, /etc/shadow really) instead of the 
>>>>password created in the sasl database using saslpasswd. I'd like it to 
>>>>use the sasl password if possible (which it seems it is), however, I 
>>>>can't seem to figure out what to change to make it use the passwords 
>>>>created by saslpasswd instead of the "regular" password on this system 
>>>>The /etc/imapd.conf file contains the following two lines:
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>>>>sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
>>>>sasl_mech_list: PLAIN
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>>>>
>>>>It seems that maybe changing the second one could be of some help, but I 
>>>>don't know what it should be. In case it helps, the whole imapd.conf 
>>>>file is:
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>>>>configdirectory: /var/lib/imap
>>>>partition-default: /var/spool/imap
>>>>admins: cyrus
>>>>sievedir: /var/lib/imap/sieve
>>>>sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
>>>>hashimapspool: true
>>>>sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
>>>>sasl_mech_list: PLAIN
>>>>tls_cert_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/cyrus-imapd.pem
>>>>tls_key_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/cyrus-imapd.pem
>>>>tls_ca_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt
>>>>
>>>>Does anyone have any suggestions?
>>>>
>>>>Thank you,
>>>>
>>>>Edward
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