On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Steve Campbell campbell@cnpapers.com wrote:
Or maybe by the
slightly-weird 'alternatives' system. Have you followed all of the symlinks that might be involved?
Symlinks? I haven't found any of those yet. All files are real files
On a 6.x system with dovecot and sendmail, /etc/pam.d/smtp is a symlink. I haven't tracked down the significance.
Meant to say pretty much everyone over on the dovecot list must be using postfix, which has support for dovecot auth. I'd like to make sendmail use cyrus sasl, and I don't really care what auth dovecot uses, but I'm guessing it's inflexible so that it probably will use dovecot auth.
Whatever you think about sendmail, you can't say it is inflexible. And whatever issues you are having are from not understanding the configuration.
The suggestion to make them the same has been brought up, but all's I want to use is the PAM mechanism.
That should have been the default.
turn off dovecot means "service dovecot stop" or "/etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot stop". saslauthd is still running and so is sendmail. saslauthd is started at boot and I've made sure it really is running using ps.
That's not a default, is it? Or for sendmail to use it? And it is probably the one from the cyrus-sasl package.