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

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

>
> 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?
>

I've been trying to look further into the documentation and it does appear
that there may be times when there is more than 1 config file - this
depends on what application is actually going to be using sasl.

In our case, as far as I'm aware, postfix is the only application that may
use sasl, hence the smtpd.conf file and only the need for us to "move"
this one file.

Are there any other application on DL that use sasl?

Martin