On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Gerald Timothy Quimpo wrote:
> hello all,
>
> someone I work with is installing Cyrus-IMAPD and he's
> having problems with SASL authentication. he hasn't
> tried to use the other authentication methods yet.
> this is on Redhat 7.2.
is he by any chance using SASL to authenticate via pam or shadow? If he
is, then the problem lies in an inherent limtation of the PAM libraries in
that using programs must be run at superuser level for it to work. This
is because the shadow file is readable by root only. The solution is to
use the 1.5.27 version which has a standalone saslauthd running as root,
and listens via a unix domain socket. SASL clients talk to the daemon via
the socket and get their results via that link.
>
> we install everything from source here, for various
> reasons. when we get desperate enough we'll install
> from RPM, but we're not there yet.
>
If your need is twiddling around with the source, go get the SOURCE RPM
which has both the tarball and the commands to get it up and running on
your box. This makes is _very_ easy to setup the package on another box
if need be.
> Apart from the regular install docs on Cyrus and SASL,
> does anyone have links to documentation/howtos on
> SASL and Cyrus authentication in particular? i am not
> privy to exactly what all he's done, i may get him to
> subscribe here so he can post his questions and procedure
> himself.
Most of the docs are already available as RFCs on the site of cyrus.
>
> by the way, which free webmail software is most popular
> here? replies to this one in private [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> and i'll summarize if necessary.
Try twig.screwdriver.net, others here in plug use IMP as well
>
> tiger
>
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