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

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

Added to DL 1.2 and 1.3

Thanks for the patch !

Heiko

On Fri, September 16, 2005 16:37, Martin Glazer wrote:
> 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-sas
>>>>>>> l/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
>
>


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