[PLUG] Setting up a postfix authenticated relay

[Brian Beattie]

On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 02:24, Wil Cooley wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 16:17, Brian Beattie wrote:
> 
> > Maybe staightforward to some, but not clear to me.  However; with this
> > clue and Charlie's clue and some googleing I seem to have a setup that
> > works.  The final clue for working with saslauthd, was to put postfix in
> > the sasl and mail groups (mail may not be needed).
                      ^^^^^^
> 
> Shouldn't need to with saslauthd, the point of which is to run as root
> so the application using it doesn't need to.

the application does not run as root who said it did?
It needs to run gid sasl to be able to read the /var/run/sasl directory
to find the name of the pipe to talk to.
> 
> Wil
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