[Mimedefang] sasldb2 not found

[Nels Lindquist]

On 30 Jun 2004 at 10:37, David Kolar wrote:

> I have followed the Micky Hill HOWTO to the letter. I have come up against a
> wall. I am almost to the end of the Cyrus IMAP installation. I have
> discovered that I do not have the /etc/sasldb2. What program is suppose to
> install this and is it necessary. I have Redhat 9.

Since you're almost to the end of the installation, this may be more 
annoying than helpful, but you might want to visit 
http://www.invoca.ch/pub/packages/cyrus-imapd/

Grab the source RPM, "rpmbuild --rebuild cyrus-imapd[...]" and 
install the resulting RPMS.  Relatively painless.

Anyway, sasldb2 is actually used by the Cyrus SASL2 authentication 
layer which can be used by a variety of services (including SMTP AUTH 
in sendmail), not just Cyrus IMAPD.  Depending on what authentication 
scheme you're using, you may or may not need it.  For example, if 
your sole means of authentication is LOGIN against the shadow 
password file, you run saslauthd (appropriately configured) and 
sasldb2 isn't required.

If you want more secure authentication mechanisms (eg. CRAM-MD5, 
DIGEST-MD5, NTLM, etc.) then you need some sort of password store. 
The sasldb2 file is one such.

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Nels Lindquist <*>
Information Systems Manager
Morningstar Air Express Inc.