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

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Friedrich Lobenstock wrote:

> 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...
>
I did a quick test with the patch and it fails only in 1 place for the 
currently used Postfix 2.1.5. Postfix 2.2.0 has 2 rejects.
This wouldn't be hard to fix.

Do you want us to wait until you're further down the road with your 
implementation ?

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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org