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Re: Sarge, SASL, and pwcheck



On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 07:46:30PM -0400, Cole Tuininga wrote:
> 
> Hi all -
> 
> I'm in the process of setting up a new Sarge box.  One of it's roles
> will be to act as an authenticating mail server (using exim4).  I was
> looking into doing auth'ing with PAM, but that would require having exim
> run as root, which obviously is not a good idea.
> 
> After reading a little more, the suggestion I came across was to use
> SASL authentication through pwcheck.  Here's where the problem comes in
> - I can't seem to find the pwcheck binary anywhere.  I saw mention that
> cyrus needs to be compiled with support for this - do I need to do this
> by hand?  Or does it exist in a package that I haven't been able to
> find?
> 

You want the cyrus-common package [0].

-Roberto

[0]
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=pwcheck&searchmode=searchfiles&case=insensitive&version=stable&arch=i386
-- 
Roberto C. Sanchez
http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto

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