Re: Postfix & SASL

[Roberto Sanchez <rcsanchez97@yahoo.es>]

Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> Quoting Jeffrey L. Taylor <jeff@austinblues.dyndns.org>:
>
> > I am trying to get SASL running with Postfix on Debian.  I would like
> > to authenticate against /etc/passwd, but I only have a few users and
> > they don't change often so any mechanism would be okay.  I have the
> > following in /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf and
> > /usr/lib/sasl/smtpd.conf:
> >
> > pwcheck_method: passwd
> > mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN
> >
> > I am getting the following error in syslog:
> >
> > postfix/smtpd[3072]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms
> >
> > Does anyone have this working?
> >
> > TIA,
> >  Jeffrey
>
>
> Additional details, I have the following packages installed:
>
> postfix
> postfix-tls
> libsasl7
>
> Do I need anything else?
>
> Jeffrey

You should really authenticate against pwcheck.  This allows you
to run Postfix as a non-priveleged user in a chroot jail, with
no access to /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow.

Read this: http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/smtpauth/

Great HOWTO, with step-by-step instructions

-Roberto

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