Re: Postfix Authentication for Remote Users

["R. W. Rodolico" <stargazer@rodolico.org>]

I finally worked it out, but I'm not sure how. I do know it is a
kludge, but I see no way around it. For anyone searching, these
documents helped. The postfix documentation doesn't help at all
since Debian puts postfix in a chroot jail and that appears to cause
sasl to not work. Or, I don't know what I am talking about.

I finally ended up taking the advice in the third link, since this
machine needs client maintainability over security. I simply told
sasl to start up inside the chroot jail that Debian creates for
postfix, then postfix was able to talk to it. Doesn't seem to be any
other way around it. I'll just create a little cron job to update
the copy of shadow in /var/spool/etc. Major breach of security, but
is easier right now than figuring out how to un-chroot postfix.

Gawd this is a total kludge.

http://www.tribulaciones.org/docs/postfix-sasl-tls-howto.html

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2003-03/0051.html

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2005-01/0006.html

Rod

Corey Ralph said:
> On 08/11/2005, at 3:57 PM, R. W. Rodolico wrote:
>
>> I have installed postfix for the first time, but can not figure
out
>> how to tell it to authenticate remote users, ie users on
>> (generally
>> dynamic) machines outside the network who should be required to
authenticate prior to sending mail. I'm simply getting a
>> rejection.
>
> http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html
>
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