Re: Need info: How to setup sendmail authentication

Brad Barnett <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.ottawa.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>

Jon,

You definitely don't need to compile anything, at least on Debian -- and
I'd assume the same for Ubuntu.

On Debian, you apt-get install sasl2-bin (for saslauthd), make
sure /etc/default/saslauthd has mechanism="pam" in it, and monkey
with /etc/mail/sasl/sasl.m4.

You also need to make sure that something like

include(`/etc/mail/sasl/sasl.m4')dnl

is included in sendmail.mc, and rebuild the config (make,
sendmailconfig, whatever).

It's been a while, and there could be something I'm missing -- but 100%,
you do not need to recompile.

At least the above should help you narrow down your Google search..

On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 09:16:57 -0400 (EDT)
Jon Earle <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey folks,
> 
> Been searching for a definitive howto on setting up sendmail 
> authentication.  Basically, I want to log into my sendmail from a
> remote ISP to send email.  Box is a ubuntu 9.04 server.  The following
> is installed:
> 
> $ dpkg -l | grep sasl
> ii  libsasl2-2                        2.1.22.dfsg1-23ubuntu3
> ii  libsasl2-modules                  2.1.22.dfsg1-23ubuntu3
> $ dpkg -l | grep sendmail
> ii  sendmail                          8.14.3-6 
> ii  sendmail-base                     8.14.3-6 
> ii  sendmail-bin                      8.14.3-6 
> ii  sendmail-cf                       8.14.3-6
> 
> I know I'll probably need to install other packages.
> 
> The various howto's I've found seem to deal with compiling all or most
> of the above, including GCC, etc., which I obviously would rather not
> do (I prefer to let the system manage itself).
> 
> I'm also not going to implement the "full enchilada" of what I can do
> with sendmail authentication... just want to be able to login and
> secure that login from evesdropping.
> 
> Any help or pointers to relevant readme's (ie: those geared toward 
> using the system's packages vs compiling from scratch) would be 
> appreciated!
> 
> Cheers!
> Jon
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