Re: Sendmail + plain text auth?

On Thu, 26 May 2005 [email protected] wrote:

> I haven't tried on Tao4 but I see no reason why this should not work on
> Tao4? Paste this into your sendmail.mc and rebuild your sendmail.cf (the
> first row is not needed, but it does not hurt you).
>
> define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', `authwarnings,novrfy,noexpn,restrictqrun')dnl
> define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A')dnl
> define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS',`PLAIN LOGIN')dnl
> TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`PLAIN LOGIN')dnl
>
> If this doesent work for you please give more information than "I couldn't
> get it to work so far". The more specific you are the more we can help.
>
> Regards
>
> /Lars



Hi!

Unfortunately it is not as simple as that. The complete authentication 
system changed with RHEL4. The only solution I found so far was modifying 
the RPMS and recompiling them. Plain text auth is completely disabled it 
seems.