From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 1 8:30:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C29837B43C for ; Tue, 1 May 2001 08:30:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Tue, 1 May 2001 16:22:12 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14ubyM-0002YZ-00; Tue, 01 May 2001 16:21:54 +0100 Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 16:21:54 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant To: "Marc G. Fournier" Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Cyrus IMAPd using PAM authentication under FreeBSD ... In-Reply-To: <20010501112808.L86517-100000@atelier.acadiau.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 1 May 2001, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Okay, I'm at a loss here, and hope someone has an idea of what I'm missing > ... > > I installed cyrus-imapd and cyrus-sasl from ports under FreeBSD, that all > appears to work great as long as I don't try and set sasl_pwcheck_method > to PAM ... as soon as I set that, it fails. You've got imap and pop configured to require unix auth. > My pam.conf file looks like the following, in case I'm doing something > obvious in there? > > ==================== > imap auth required pam_smb_auth.so nolocal > > sieve auth sufficient pam_unix.so > sieve auth required pam_smb_auth.so use_first_pass > > pop auth required pam_smb_auth.so > > imap auth required pam_unix.so try_first_pass > pop3 auth required pam_unix.so try_first_pass > ==================== Won't pam_unix.so require root priviledges to check for passwords in the system database? -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Unfortunately, I have a very good idea how fast my keys are moving. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message