Making Cyrus use the saslpasswd?

[Thomas Börnert]

please have a look to your saslauthd start script, there is an entry
with MECH=

-Thomas

On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 11:37 -0400, Edward Corrado wrote:
> I believe that it is currently going through PAM, which in turn looks at 
> the systems passwd files.
> 
> Edward
> 
> Thomas Börnert said the following on 8/1/2005 11:30 AM:
> 
> >which method uses your saslauthd ? i think its pam in your case ...
> >
> >On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 11:06 -0400, Edward Corrado wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hello All,
> >>
> >>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:
> >>
> >>sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
> >>sasl_mech_list: PLAIN
> >>
> >>
> >>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:
> >>
> >>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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