It seems that it is quite a nightmare to get SMTP-AUTH working with sendmail in debian.
After two days I've discovered that sendmail is using something called sasl (sasl2 actually) to do the authentication and it requires something called "realms". Well, I don't want this. I want sendmail to use the same information present in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow to do the authentication so that I don't have to keep issuing saslpasswd commands to add users every time I add a user. It just seems silly to try and keep two different authentication databases synchronized. sendmail configuration in debian is *very* confusing. Could somebody please tell me how I simply configure SMTP-AUTH to authenticate using the information present in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow (pam, I guess?) AND I would like it to be a persistent change so that if I upgrade the sendmail package or rerun update-conf/sendmailconf it doesn't break. Thanks, - Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
