On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 07:34:10 +0100
Gilles Chehade <gil...@poolp.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:17:56PM -0300, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote:
> > Hi!
> > I've been using smtpd on my server for some time now, and I want to
> > host e-mail accounts for a couple of friends who've asked me to.
> >
> > I was wondering if it's posible to configure opensmtpd to use a
> > custom passwd for user authentication.
> > All I've found in the man pages, is configuring user/pass for
> > relaying, but nothing related to actual user authentication.
> >
>
> Actually I might have misunderstood what you meant because of your
> mention to "custom" passwd.
>
> You can already authenticate users in your master.passwd file. All you
> have to do is to add "enable auth" to a listener:
>
> listen on em0 tls certificate "my.crt" enable auth
> listen on em0 smtps certificate "my.crt" enable auth
>
> It will only work if you configured the listener to support tls or
> smtps as authentication is only allowed over a secure channel.
>
> What is not yet possible is to use alternate authentication sources.
Then after all it *is* QUITE possible. I've written bsd auth module
for authenticating to any pop3 server. Gilles, I had a chat
with you some time before....
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With best regards,
Gregory Edigarov
