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

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

On Sun, September 11, 2005 22:55, Martin Glazer wrote:
> 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

I'm lagging the knowledge about sasl, but wouldn't there be other
instances, where somebody would have more then this one config file?

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  Heiko Zuerker
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