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Date:      Tue, 16 May 2000 19:44:08 -0500
From:      "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net>
To:        "Chris Dillon" <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
Cc:        "Brandon Fosdick" <bfoz@Glue.umd.edu>, <ports@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Cyrus Troubles
Message-ID:  <01cb01bfbf99$036c6480$8dfee0d1@westbend.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.0005161010260.59205-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>

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From: "Chris Dillon" <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
> It still doesn't make sense, but it is.  The method that would make
> sense is "sasldb", since pwcheck isn't even a valid method.  But I'll
> be damned if it doesn't work. :-/
>
> But that is ALL that is required.  sasldb.db can be readable only by
> root, which the pwcheck daemon runs as.  I do suppose now that you
> could run the pwcheck daemon as another user (a "sasl" user
> perhaps?) and be readable by that user.
>
> I still can't figure out how to get pwcheck to check the local unix
> password database instead of sasldb.db, though.
>
You don't need to add anymore users to the sasldb.db, if you want it to use
the password database.  The only user that I have in the sasldb.db is the
admin user, all other users are authenticated with the password database.

Scot




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