Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2020 22:12:50 +0000 (UTC) From: doug@safeport.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Postfix-sasl on FreeBSD will not authenticate Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2009082208030.33406@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <c0b3c010829d6ce19e25cead6176d5de.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> References: <523ffb82f14da9944a5368f28eddecac.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> <0970ea44-1438-171a-4f44-221c4f9facd4@nethead.se> <c0b3c010829d6ce19e25cead6176d5de.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca>
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On Tue, 3 Jul 2018, James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions wrote: > > On Tue, July 3, 2018 18:12, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: >> >> >> On 07/03/18 22:39, James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions wrote: >>> On server A we have cyrus-imapd running with spiped listening on >>> TCP:143. On server B we have postfix-sasl-3.3.0 running with spiped >>> listening on TCP:143 linked to server A. >>> >>> On server A saslauthd is configured in rc.conf to use rimap to the >>> localhost: >>> >>> saslauthd_flags="-a rimap \ >>> -O localhost" # Use Remote IMAP to authenticat >>> >>> Postfix is configured to use saslauth to authenticate outgoing >>> senders: >>> >>> smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes >>> smtpd_sasl_authenticated_header = no >>> smtpd_sasl_exceptions_networks = >>> smtpd_sasl_local_domain = >>> smtpd_sasl_path = smtpd >>> smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous >>> smtpd_sasl_service = smtp >>> smtpd_sasl_tls_security_options = $smtpd_sasl_security_options >>> smtpd_sasl_type = cyrus >>> >>> >>> But I cannot find any such file named smtpd.conf which, according to >>> the Postfix documentation, should exist and should contain: >>> >>> pwcheck_method: saslauthd >>> mech_list: PLAIN >>> >>> It appears to me that postfix is directly looking in >>> /usr/local/etc/sasldb2.db itself and, finding no entries, failing to >>> authenticate. How do I tell postfix to use the saslauthd daemon >>> instead? >>> >> >> You must create the file yourself and adjust it to whatever mech you >> use, in our case it is saslauthd: >> >> cat /usr/local/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf >> pwcheck_method: saslauthd >> mech_list: plain login >> > > Thank you. Do you know where the path to the file location is > specified in the FreeBSD documentation? It is in the postfix docs. As I recall it says put it in ../sasls (or some such).
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