----- Original Message ----- From: "LaMont Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rados?aw Antoniuk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 5:01 AM Subject: Re: postfix+sasl2 (postfix+tls package from testing distribiution - sarge)
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 02:21:12AM +0200, Rados?aw Antoniuk wrote: > > There's a bug in the _package_ and i would be grateful if you fixed > > that soon. > > Firstly, the package should require libsasl2. But this is to be > > discussed. > > No, it shouldn't. Not until there is a LDAP library that will allow > me to link with both LDAP and SASL2. That is in progress, and should > happen sometime soon. Until then, we're stuck with SASL1. > > > Secondly, if we want to use saslauthd as the authentication mechanism, > > we should: > > 1) make directories: > > mkdir /var/spool/postfix/var > > mkdir /var/spool/postfix/var/run > > mkdir /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd > > > > 2) start saslauthd in the following way (for shadow): > > saslauthd -a shadow -m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd/mux > > > > 3) run smtp in chroot (in master.cf) NOT as described in all howtos - > > to change default to non-chrooted environment. > > > > I advise to change it in the packages because there are a lot of > > people trying to set up this configuration and it took us a week to > > get to the point , what were the dependencies and why do we have > > "cannot connect to saslauthd" message in logs. > > I'll be looking into the whole sasl and TLS install situation in the > near future. > > lamont
