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From: Joe Strusz <jstrusz@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-security@l.g.o
Subject: Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: [gentoo-security] postfix and SASL
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 14:12:30
Message-Id: 6.2.3.4.0.20051005090452.01caa270@op.oxpub.com
1 I ran the saslpasswd2 -c <username> command to no avail... im still
2 receiving the blasted password prompt.
3
4 I know that sasl uses sasldb2 by default, but i swear i changed that to pam.
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27 >Joe Strusz wrote:
28 >>OK, well i disabled the smtpd_tl_auth_only line.
29 >>And now whenever i try to connect via say outlook express on a
30 >>client machine...
31 >>I check the box that says, "my outgoing server requires
32 >>authentication", and i do get the password prompt, however
33 >>whichever login/password i try to use it gets rejected, over and
34 >>over and over again...
35 >>any suggestions?
36 >
37 >SASL doesn't use system authentication (such as PAM/LDAP) by
38 >default. It uses it's own password database (similar to the way samba works).
39 >
40 >Make sure that you run:
41 >
42 >saslpasswd2 -c <username>
43 >
44 >to add the user (and their password) to the SASL authentication database.
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Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: [gentoo-security] postfix and SASL David vasil <vasil@××××××.edu>