On Sun Mar 10, 2002 at 11:14:36AM +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote:

> > Now, for your case, you want to use pwcheck method.  /usr/sbin/pwcheck
> > is a daemon, run as root, that acts as a go-between between postfix
> 
> Hm, isn't pwcheck the pre-1.5.27 daemon?  I think I've read that now
> saslauthd should be used, no?  And for saslauthd there's an init script

I have no idea... the manpage for saslauthd isn't very clear, so I
don't know if it's a replacement daemon for pwcheck.  It could very
well be.

> Another thing that I find strange, was his /usr/lib/sasl/smtpd.conf
> file.  It contained lines which should be in /etc/pam.d/smtpd.  When I
> had postfix+SMTP AUTH somewhat working, I had nothing but pwcheck_method
> in there - and this file seemed to be totally ignored, by the way.

IIRC, he didn't have anything more in his smtpd.conf thant the
pwcheck_method clause.

David?

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