Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:55:29 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: jncastellano@noconname.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Postfix or SASL Port failure ( TLS Support ) Message-ID: <0505ACBCBED4EC65FF9F6D18@utd49554.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <42387211.5050404@noconname.org> References: <42387211.5050404@noconname.org>
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--On Wednesday, March 16, 2005 06:51:13 PM +0100 Jos=E9 Nicol=E1s = Castellano=20 <jncastellano@noconname.org> wrote: > > I'm did some installations of postfix with freebsd 5.3 box install. > Now I want to autenticate with sasl support with pam support. The problem > is the next: > > In /usr/local/lib/sasl2 i have to add the line: > mech_list: plain login > > To permit login to pam database, because if i don't add it, the saslauthd > responses something like: > postfix/smtpd[753]: warning: SASL authentication failure: Password > verification failed > > If i put other authentication protocol FAILS, I use Thunderbird as email > client. > So what's the problem? TLS for Postfix means that you are connecting to Postfix over SSL. Mech=20 plain simply means that *within* that secure tunnel, your password is in=20 plain text. That's not a problem unless you know someone has cracked OpenSSl. Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu
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