Making Cyrus use the saslpasswd?

Thomas Börnert tb at tbits.net
Mon Aug 1 11:30:37 EDT 2005


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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