Cyrus Imap plaintext authentication with saslauth & PAM

[Dan White]

Kővári János wrote:
> Dan White írta:
>>
>> Is your postfix running chroot'd? If so, where is the sasldb2 file 
>> that it's using located? In /var/spool/postfix/etc ?
>>
>> If so, try adding to /etc/imapd.conf:
>>
>> sasl_sasldb_path: /var/spool/postfix/etc/sasldb2
>>
>> - Dan
>>
> Yes, it's chroot'd.
> I have sasldb2 both in chroot and /etc. Both are readable by cyrus. I 
> don't think it's the problem, I remember when I forgot to add users to 
> sasldb2 and tried to login, I got an error message in the logs, 
> saying: no secret in the database or something. So it does find the 
> database. (But I can be wrong, it was quite some time ago...) But 
> previously I was using sasldb2 without problems, so I assuem it is set 
> up more or less correctly.
>
> And please keep in mind, that I *don't* want sasldb, this whole thing 
> with saslauthd is about avoiding sasldb2 and to use plaintext 
> authentication with PAM-only.
>
>
> Have a good weekend to everyone reading this! :)
>
> Janos

True,

I'm just trying to reproduce your Postfix environment in Cyrus imapd. I 
think you must be using sasldb when performing cram/disgest 
authentication, not PAM (since saslauthd/PAM do not support them).

- Dan