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

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

On Mon, September 12, 2005 10:40, Martin Glazer wrote:
>>

>> 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/fi
>>>>> les/ 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?

That's a definite maybe. ;-)

I'm almost certain that quite a few more apps are configured to use SASL.
Because of this, I would favor the patch.

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  Heiko Zuerker
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