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

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

On September 12, 2005 09:56, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> 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.

OK, attached is the patch for the build/scripts/cyrus-sasl script as well as a 
sample smtpd.conf file (to be placed in build/scripts/scripts).

Also, the actual cyrus-sasl configdir patch is attached. This should be placed 
in the src directory. I obtained this from one of the Gentoo mirrors for 
cyrus-sasl-2.1.20
http://prometheus.cs.wmich.edu/gentoo/rsync/dev-libs/cyrus-sasl/files/ 

Thanks

Martin