Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:09:53 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Postfix with Cyrus SASL Message-ID: <526CB4E323CF90FDF993531C@utd59514.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <47869239.5030009@grasslake.net> References: <478583BF.6090406@grasslake.net> <20080110064345.GF70027@roo.7f000001.org> <47867597.2070800@grasslake.net> <141D87EE051918F290E96172@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <47869239.5030009@grasslake.net>
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--On Thursday, January 10, 2008 15:46:33 -0600 Shawn Barnhart
<swb@grasslake.net> wrote:
> Paul Schmehl wrote:
>> It should, because it calls this:
>>
>> .if defined(WITH_SASL2)
>> LIB_DEPENDS+= sasl2.2:${PORTSDIR}/security/cyrus-sasl2
>> POSTFIX_CCARGS+= -DUSE_SASL_AUTH -DUSE_CYRUS_SASL
>> -I${LOCALBASE}/include -I${LOCALBASE}/include/sasl
>> POSTFIX_AUXLIBS+= -L${LOCALBASE}/lib -lsasl2 -lpam -lcrypt
>> .endif
>>
>> Yes, you need to install saslauthd, however, if you checked the OPTION
>> when you installed Postfix, it's most likely already installed. You
>> *also* need to enable saslauthd in /etc/rc.conf:
>>
>> [root@mail /usr/ports/mail/postfix]# grep sasl /etc/rc.conf
>> saslauthd_enable="YES"
>> saslauthd_flags=" -a pam -n 2"
>>
>> (This uses /etc/passwd through pam, btw.)
>>
>> Look at /usr/local/etc/rc.d/saslauthd.sh for the options and flags
>> available or read man (8) saslauthd.
>>
>
> Either I'm totally fubar, or the ports snapshot I have is braindead as I did
> select the SASL option when I built postfix and I have sasl libs in
> /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/lib/sasl2 but none of the other sasl components
> are installed. No saslauthd in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, no manpage, just
> libraries mentioned above, and my postfix smtpd does appear to have a sasl
> library run-time dependency per ldd.
>
> Is the better fix to manually re-install the same Cyrus sasl port or
> deinstall both it and postfix and rebuild postfix with the sasl option and
> hope I get a complete build?
>
If Postfix is working as you expect (except for auth of course), I would just
force the reinstall of sasl (or deinstall and reinstall if that's your
preferred method.)
Saslauthd is installed in /usr/local/sbin/saslauthd, btw.
--
Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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