On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 04:47:08PM -0500, tom stovall wrote: > anyone got a good HOWTO on making SASLAUTH work with postfix in redhat > 8? > > I tried the instructions in /usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl and the postfix > site... "AUTHENTICATION FAILED" > > shadow, PAM, sasldb... all fail. I'm sure it's something real stupid > that I'm not doing... >
This could be because of postfix not having read access to /etc/shadow As you might be knowing postfix does not start with root privileges The alternatives are 1. not using /etc/shadow 2. Changing /etc/shadow mode to 644 ( both of these might not good ideas. ) 3. Authentication using NIS / LDAP etc... We configured using LDAP authentication. For further info you may search postfix mailing lists. Cheers, -- Srinivasa Rao T Network & Systems Pramati Technologies Phone: +91-40-3411672/673 ext: 211 Fax: +91-40-3411676 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
