[Devil-linux-develop] patch to get postfix to work with saslauthd

[Friedrich L. <fl...@fl...>]

Hi!

I was just trying to get postfix on DL 1.2.3 to use saslauth with rimap 
authentication.

I did fail to configure smtpd to use the saslauthd. As a workaround I had to do:

cp -a /usr/lib/sasl2/ /tmp/
mount -t shm shm /usr/lib/sasl2/
cp -a /tmp/sasl2/* /usr/lib/sasl2/

to get a writeable /usr/lib/sasl2/ directory. There I could then put the 
"smtpd.conf" file to tell postfix to use saslauthd.

I found that someone created a patch so this file would then be stored at eg. 
/etc/postfix/sasl which is definitely writeable on DL.

Get the patch at <http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2005-03/0397.html>

Following that thread I've come to "plan B" (if you don't like to add a patch):
step 1)
   Add
     export SASL_PATH=/etc/postfix/sasl:/usr/lib/sasl2
   somewhere at the start of /etc/init.d/postfix. Preferably
   direct after "PACKAGE_NAME=POSTFIX".


step 2)
   Update postfix config by running
      postconf -e "$(postconf -d | grep import_environment | sed \
      -e "s/$/ SASL_PATH/")"

Now one can put postfix sasl config files like "smtpd.conf" at /etc/postfix/sasl 
as the original destination /usr/lib/sasl2 is quite write protected as it's on 
the CD.

PS: This is just step closer as I now got saslauthd talk to the imap server BUT 
there some other problems there. Updates to come...

-- 
MfG / Regards
Friedrich Lobenstock
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Friedrich Lobenstock                       Linux Services Lobenstock
URL: http://www.lsl.at/                         Email: fl...@fl...
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