On 2004-02-24 Matthew Byng-Maddick <exim@???> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:14:47AM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> On 2004-02-24 "Odhiambo G. Washington" <wash@???> wrote:
>>> Are there any detailed howtos on doing asmtp using saslauthd out there?
>> Why do you need a howto for that? ;-)
>> Install sasl, add the user exim is running as (exim -bP exim_user)
>> to the group (sasl?) that is allowed to access saslauthd-socket
>> (/var/run/saslauthd/mux?) and use this authenticator
> Note that this (a) requires exim to be properly using initgroups() for its
> routing (not sure if it does by default),
When I added example and documention for saslauthd to Debian's exim4
packages of course I checked whether it worked and it did. - So we can
assume (a) applies.
> and (b) won't work on anything but plaintext authentication.
correct, as does pwcheck.
> I have a patch to properly use libsasl2 with Exim, but it's currently somewhat
> of a work in progress as I found that I didn't quite understand exim's memory
> handling as much as I'd first thought.
> I believe it's OK now, however (I only care about releasing my allocations in
> the initialiser, which is a part of the long-lived process), so if you want
> to try it, it's available at:
[...]
Nice. :-)
cu andreas
