Just have the SMTP server authorize
through the same PAM interface that
your cyrus server does.
If you have SASL in the middle, that's
fine too. I think most SMTP servers
these support PAM directly.
-- Michael --
----- Original Message -----
From: "The Hermit Hacker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 7:13 AM
Subject: SASL w/ PAM vs sasldb ... SMTP_AUTH issues ...
>
> Okay, think I hit enough points in the subject :)
>
> I'm looking at using pam-pgsql to do authentication, instead of sasldb ...
> I'm hitting problems with sasldb that I can't explain, where users
> passwords all of a sudden don't work, and figure if I move into a db
> environment, at least I can better debug it ...
>
> I've installed the PAM module, and tested it, and it works sweet ... but
> how will something like SMTP_AUTH work? Or does moving away from using
> sasldb eliminate that feature?
>
> Thanks ...
>
> Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick:
Scrappy
> Systems Administrator @ hub.org
> primary: [EMAIL PROTECTED] secondary:
scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
>
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