Re: Postfix & SASL

[David Clymer <david@zettazebra.com>]

On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 18:13, 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
> 


Make sure you have libsasl-modules | libsasl2-modules && libsasl |
libsasl2 installed. The libsasl? packages only provide an abstract sasl
lib. For it to be very useful, you will need to install the modules
which provide the various authentication implementations.

-davidc