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Date:      Wed, 4 Jul 2018 07:17:06 +0200
From:      Per olof Ljungmark <peo@nethead.se>
To:        byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Postfix-sasl on FreeBSD will not authenticate
Message-ID:  <da129e37-b8b0-54c2-d179-5bf4781ea4d0@nethead.se>
In-Reply-To: <c0b3c010829d6ce19e25cead6176d5de.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca>
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On 07/04/18 00:49, 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?
> 

Hm, don't think it is. The location is configurable in Postfix though.

http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html



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