[PLUG] Courier/Postfix relay after authenticating?
Jeme A Brelin
jeme at brelin.net
Thu Mar 18 23:46:01 UTC 2004
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Wil Cooley wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 16:31, Jeme A Brelin wrote:
>
> > Then you need to create something like /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf:
> > pwcheck_method: PAM <or whatever method you like>
>
> Actually, you want to use 'saslauthd' here, and run 'saslauthd' with PAM
> authentication. Before Cyrus-SASL 1.5.27, you had to dance carefully
> around permissions to do PAM authentication because Postfix, Cyrus IMAP,
> OpenLDAP, etc drop priviledges and can't automatically read /etc/shadow.
Err... yeah, that's what I'm doing. 'Cept it ain't saslauthd, it's
courier's authdaemon (which is redundantly named authdaemond).
> > And then create a PAM thingie for smtpd in /etc/pam.d/smtpd:
>
> The PAM auth name is smtpd, even if you use saslauthd. (Actually, I
> think it's just 'smtp'.)
Err... right:
jbrelin at loyale:~$ ls -l /etc/pam.d/smtp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 366 Nov 10 01:23 /etc/pam.d/smtp
Most of that was off of the top of my head. Certainly not intended as a
"how-to" so much as a "good startin' place".
J.
--
-----------------
Jeme A Brelin
jeme at brelin.net
-----------------
[cc] counter-copyright
http://www.openlaw.org
More information about the PLUG
mailing list