[CentOS] auth of sendmail?

Thu Oct 5 20:17:53 UTC 2006
Eucke <euckew at sierraelectronics.com>

Roberto Barrientos Molina wrote:
> hi, i have installed sendmail+mailscanner+clamav+spamassassin and work fine, but my telnet localhost 25 is not authenticates. i read a lot of docs but something i don't do it.
> i have installed centos 4.3 with:
> sendmail-8.13.1-3
> sendmail-cf-8.13.1-3
> dovecot-0.99.11-2
> mailscanner-4.50.15-3.9
> clamav-0.88.4-1.9
> spamassassin-3.0.6-1
> cyrus-sasl-2.1.19-5
> cyrus-sasl-plain-2.1.19-5
> cyrus-sasl-md5-2.1.19-5
> and i have enabled the next config:
> TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`EXTERNAL DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
> define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')
> DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA')dnl
> i try the next:
>  /usr/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf
> 	pwcheck_method:shadow
>  /etc/ld.so.conf
> 	/usr/lib/sasl2
>
>
> i think than this is my problem, i don't know where i put this lines:
> # SASL2 (smtp authentication) 
>  APPENDDEF(`confENVDEF', `-DSASL=2') 
>  APPENDDEF(`conf_sendmail_LIBS', `-lsasl2') 
> because, the file site.config.m4 that'snt exist in centos 4. i'm lost.
> any comments or light in the darkness is welcome, if just i block the access without login to telnet....i will so happy.
> thanks
> Roberto.-
>
>   
Perhaps I am being overly simplistic but has that port been opened in 
iptables?

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Eucke