[afnog] SASL authentication with passwd file

[Antonio Godinho]

Hi All,

I am running a mail server based on postfix/FreeBSD6.1. I am also running 
openwebmail with virtual domains. The domain password files are separate 
from the system, they are kept in a dir as /etc/virtual/domain/passwd.

Everything is working normally, now I have installed SASL to run with 
postfix and I have configured it to authenticate with saslauthd. It works 
for the users that are in the system file but will not work for the users in 
the virtual domain's passwd file. I have installed the following from 
ports /usr/ports/security/pam_pwdfile-0.95_1 which should allow me to make 
SASL authentication through PAM module by pointing to this. So, I am running 
saslauthd -a pam and I have created the file smtp under /etc/pam.d with the 
following line inside:

 auth    required        /usr/local/lib/pam_pwdfile.so \ 
pwdfile /etc/virtual/domain/passwd 

I get in the logfile for mail authentication failure if I try to use one of 
the users in the virtual domain file. I still don't think it is looking in 
the right place but I don't know how I can check this.

Anyone here know this module? or something how the PAM works so that I can 
troubleshoot the connection between saslauthd and PAM?

Cheers,


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Antonio Godinho
B.Sc.
CIUEM
Maputo
Mozambique