Postfix authentication question

Mark Street jet at sonic.net
Sun Sep 8 18:08:35 PDT 2002


No use switching MTA's, you can't force postfix to a specific authentication 
method.

http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/postfix-sasl.php?display=printer
http://www.thecabal.org/~devin/postfix/smtp-auth.txt

On Sunday 08 September 2002 05:06 pm, Julian Plamann wrote:
> Hello,
>     I have a situation here in which I need to authenticate users on my
> (postfix) mail server through a standard Unix passwd file in a
> non-standard location.
>     The passwd file is basically an exact replica of a typical
> /etc/passwd file. It contains user login shell/homedir/uid and the
> encrypted (MD5) passwords.It will be in a location like:
> /etc/postfix.passwd or /usr/local/postfix/etc/passwd or something of
> that nature. Do any of you have an idea as to how I could force Postfix
> to read from this file? If Qmail would be a better alternative for this
> situation, feel free to say so. I'm willing to switch if need be.
>
> Thanks 8)
>
>    --Julian

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