On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Rob Siemborski wrote: > On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Mike's List wrote: > > > > Wait -- are you using sasldb, saslauthd with the rimap backend, or shadow > > > password authentication (or some combination)? > > > > I'm using saslauthd, but saslauthd -a shows the below options, > > uthentication mechanisms: getpwent pam rimap shadow ldap > > If you're using saslauthd, that implies you know what backend you are > using... Have you read the manpage which describes them?
So saslauthd acts like a "connector" to PAM, LDAP, or some sort of backend database for authentication? I read the man pages of saslauthd but got lost between "plaintext, shadow and SASL librbary." So if I'm going to run saslauthd, I need to run PAM or OPENLDAP as the backend database? > > > You almost certainly do not want the rimap backend, unless you are doing > > > something very specific. > > > > I'm assuming I don't want shadow, I haven't installed pam or openldap so > > pam/ldap is out. I tried getpwent, rimap and both did not work. Is sasldb > > the recommended and default backend authentication dbase? I can't find it > > or know how to access to use authentication. (I tried all mechanisms and > > none worked.) > > If you are using sasldb, then you are *not* using saslauthd (or, atleast, > you really really shouldn't be). You need to set sasl_pwcheck_method: > auxprop in your imapd.conf. I modified imapd.conf with the auxprop, reload imapd, make sure saslauthd is not running. I make certain the user is listed with the command sasldblistusers2 (create by saslpasswd2) and the entry is there. But I can't still authenticate via Squirrelmail or using imtest (keeps getting failure: SASL initialization). - Mike --- Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
