Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Best way to fix saslauthd

[Martin G. <sou...@gl...>]

On September 11, 2005 19:38, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> On Fri, September 9, 2005 18:29, Martin Glazer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > There is still an issue with postfix using saslauthd in the latest
> > devil-linx - the problem is that cyrus-sasl puts its configuration file
> > smtpd.conf in /usr/lib/sasl2/ which of course is non writable on the CD.
> >
> > There are a number of possible solutions to this:
> > 1) Friedrich's solution of exporting the SASL_PATH in postfix
> > (see: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=11144397)
> >
> >
> > 2) cyrus-sasl-configdir patch
> > - found a gentoo patch here
> > http://prometheus.cs.wmich.edu/gentoo/rsync/dev-libs/cyrus-sasl/files/cyr
> >u s-sasl-2.1.20-configdir.patch which appears to apply cleanly
> >
> > 3) Create a symlink from /usr/lib/sasl2 to somewhere writeable (in /etc)
> >
> >
> > Anybody have a preferred method of resolving this?
>
> We probably should think about using the patch, because the symlink would
> require us to move the libraries too.

Sorry, I wasn't clear  - all that needs to be symlinked is the config file 
smtpd.conf, no libraries.

ln -sf /usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf /etc/sasl/smtpd.conf

Martin