authenticating to sendmail?

[Douglas J Hunley]

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Gerry Doris spewed electrons into the ether that resembled:
> 1. sendmail no longer runs as root.  The result is that it can no longer
> access the /etc/sasldb file where the sasl username/passwords are stored
> (this is needed if you're going to enable either DIGEST-M5 or CRAM-M5).
> Lowering the permissions of /etc/sasldb will result in another error.

why not just create /etc/mail/default-auth-info instead of /etc/sasldb like 
Sendmail recommends?

> The rest of the SxS should work as listed.  Let me know if you're having
> problems.

thanks
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Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778
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If NT is your answer, you don't understand the question
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