how to *not* use PAM, but sasldb2 on fedora core 5 (coming from BSD)

[Timo Schoeler]

thus Nikola Milutinovic spake:

thanks,

this issue has been solved friday night with help from alexander dalloz 
(thanks again ;).

cheers,

timo

> 
> --- Timo Schoeler <timo.schoeler at riscworks.net> wrote:
> 
>> thus Ken Jones spake:
>>> Check in the file: /etc/imapd.conf
>>>
>>> sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop
>>>
>>> sasl_auxprop_plugin: sasldb
>>>
>>> sasl_auto_transition: no
>> hi ken,
>>
>> thanks for your reply.
>>
>> in the meanwhile i try gentoo, as other distributions don't give me the 
>> freedom i used to experience (compared to xBSD ;).
>>
>> however, it still does not work.
>>
>> i made sure that i have the appropriate plugin(s) installed (hm, 
>> 'emerge' only has one for DIGEST, CRAM is missing) and the permissions 
>> of sasldb2 are okay.
>>
>> still i get:
>>
>> Mar 31 20:20:02 www imap[22824]: accepted connection
>> Mar 31 20:20:02 www imap[22824]: DIGEST-MD5 server step 1
>> Mar 31 20:20:02 www perl: DIGEST-MD5 client step 2
>>
>> when trying to login via 'cyradm -u cyrus localhost'...
> 
> DIGEST-MD5 has nothing to do with "sasl_pwcheck_method", which is affecting
> only PLAIN mechanism. CRAM-MD5 and DIGEST-MD5 will ALWAYS look into Auxiliary
> Properties. So, the relevant config options are:
> 
> sasl_auxprop_plugin: <sasldb>|<sql>|<ldapdb>
> sasl_sasldb_*
> sasl_sql_*
> sasl_ldapdb_*
> 
> Depending on your choice of AuxProp backend, you might require virtually none
> (sasldb), some (sql) or a lot of configuring (ldapdb).
> 
> I'm strugling with LDAP-DB in MS ADS environment, at the moment. Banging
> against walls.
> 
> Nix.