also sprach Rupa Schomaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.01.27.1652 +0100]:
> It is nearly impossible to get sasl to work *correctly* in a chroot
> and even more difficult with PAM.

Which is, I believe, why saslauthd was created - to load the
authentication off to another software outside the chroot. There is
absolutely no documentation though.

> I just run it outside of it's jail...  Also, you cannot use anything
> but PLAIN auth (plaintext userid/passwd in a base64 string) if you
> use PAM. Probably not a good idea. If you use sasldb (or sasldb2)
> then you can use things like CRAM-MD5.

Why not?

Is there any way to synchronize the /etc/shadow and /etc/sasldb
passwords? I am asking because my users finally learnt how to use the
passwd binary. I can't expect them to know anything else.

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