(I've cross-posted again because of my question about Courier-IMAP.)
Yesterday, Birger Toedtmann wrote:
> William Rowden schrieb am Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 09:53:55AM -0800:
> > I'd like Postfix and Courier-IMAP to use the same (SASL)
> > authentication database. What are the simplest configuration
> > options? LDAP? mySQL? userdb?
[snip]
> I myself prefer LDAP (because I know how it works) but other
> would say "uh, scrap LDAP, get MySQL...".
At the moment, I know little about LDAP, but much about databases.
This suggests mySQL when switching from flat files.
> If you are somewhat conservative, stick to flat files, but thats
> not where the world is going: flat file user mgmt is dead, esp.
> some years in the future.
I *like* flat files.
> See, we were talking about PAM, not shadow authentication.
My mind changed without changing the subject line.
> shadow is only a tiny subset of what PAM can do for you.
Reading through the PAM documentation, I didn't see what module one
would use for a database or flat file in a custom location. Is
there a tutorial anywhere?
> you may choose using the saslauthd utility which was exactly
> built for this purpose.
This will work with Courier-IMAP as well as Postfix? I'd like to
have the same authentication for sending and receiving.
> Many clients do, but the ones widely used (Netscape, Outlook)
> won't do SMTP-AUTH with these mechanisms AFAIK but just clear
> text mecha- nisms (PLAIN, LOGIN).
The documentation on LOGIN is poor, so that leaves PLAIN (over TLS,
to protect the password). We eagerly await wider mail client
implementation of SMTP-AUTH.
Thanks again for your comments!
--
-William
There can be only one!
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