auth smtp and pam.d

m.w.chang mwchang
Mon May 17 11:38:57 PDT 2004


is this related to the smrsh? I think my sendmail is still running as 
root...

root      5165  0.0  0.6  3820  860 ?        S    Oct13   0:00 sendmail: 
accepti

I am not following all the instructions in the sxs yet. smrsh is not as 
trivial as it looks for newbies like me.

> authinfo (I'm going from memory here) no longer works.  It been replaced
> by a tag with similar data in the access database.  The access directive
> has new parameters.  Also, sendmail can't access the /etc/sasldb file
> since only root has permission to do that.  Changing the permission causes
> complaints that the file has wrong permissions.  You can work around this
> by including a DontBlameSendmail directive in sendmail.mc.
> 

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