On 23.02.2012 16:16, Steve Campbell wrote:
I've been trying to get smtp auth set up for days. All my sendmail and
sasl2 stuff seems to be proper, but the user can't use the system on
port 587, which is where I require authorization.
Now I see where messages are in my maillog of the type:
auth: pam_unix(dovecot:auth) : authentication failure ........
Why is dovecot involved in my smtp processes and how do I fix this.
I've got some very mad users. The 10-auth.conf file is pretty much
stock except for allowing plain text logins.
Dovecot can be used as authentication source. It has its own
implementation of SASL library which can be used instead of Cyrus SASL
implementation.
In Dovecot2 the config for auth is in 10-master.conf, service "auth".
Please see:
for dovecot 1.x: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Sasl
for dovecot 2.x: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Sasl
on the postfix side: http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html#server_dovecot
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Adam Szpakowski
