Fw: postfix+sasl2 (postfix+tls package from testing distribiution - sarge)
----- Original Message -----
From: "LaMont Jones" <lamont@hp.com>
To: "Rados?aw Antoniuk" <warden@debian.black.pl>
Cc: <lamont@debian.org>; <lamont@hp.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 5:01 AM
Subject: Re: postfix+sasl2 (postfix+tls package from testing
distribiution - sarge)
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 02:21:12AM +0200, Rados?aw Antoniuk wrote:
> > There's a bug in the _package_ and i would be grateful if you
fixed
> > that soon.
> > Firstly, the package should require libsasl2. But this is to be
> > discussed.
>
> No, it shouldn't. Not until there is a LDAP library that will allow
> me to link with both LDAP and SASL2. That is in progress, and
should
> happen sometime soon. Until then, we're stuck with SASL1.
>
> > Secondly, if we want to use saslauthd as the authentication
mechanism,
> > we should:
> > 1) make directories:
> > mkdir /var/spool/postfix/var
> > mkdir /var/spool/postfix/var/run
> > mkdir /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd
> >
> > 2) start saslauthd in the following way (for shadow):
> > saslauthd -a shadow -m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd/mux
> >
> > 3) run smtp in chroot (in master.cf) NOT as described in all
howtos -
> > to change default to non-chrooted environment.
> >
> > I advise to change it in the packages because there are a lot of
> > people trying to set up this configuration and it took us a week
to
> > get to the point , what were the dependencies and why do we have
> > "cannot connect to saslauthd" message in logs.
>
> I'll be looking into the whole sasl and TLS install situation in the
> near future.
>
> lamont
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