Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 13:23:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: bicknell@ufp.org Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mail subsystem defaults, adding authentication. Message-ID: <200207141123.g6EBNuxQ064288@Magelan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20020714014600.GA70961@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
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On 13 Jul, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> Tomorrow I'll write up a better summary with this new info. At
> the end of the day it looks like if we add cyrus-sasl, which is
> BSD licensed then the default behavior will be unchanged, but it
> will be possible through a combination of rc.conf options, running
> saslpasswd, and/or running ssl key generation tools to do auth on
> a non-encrypted session using challenge response (against sasl
> passwords), or do auth against the password file (or any PAM method)
> over an ssl session. Thus we could make it as simple as
> 'sendmail_auth="unix"' (or pam, or whatever) for an admin to allow
> end clients to starttls, auth, and securely send e-mail all with
> their existing credential.
It would be nice if it would work like the ssh key stuff. If there's no
credential at boot time: create one.
Bye,
Alexander.
--
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...Oh, wait a minute, he already does.
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