Postfix-sasl on FreeBSD will not authenticate

[James B. Byrne]

On Tue, July 3, 2018 18:12, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
>
>
> On 07/03/18 22:39, James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions wrote:
>> On server A we have cyrus-imapd running with spiped listening on
>> TCP:143.  On server B we have postfix-sasl-3.3.0 running with spiped
>> listening on TCP:143 linked to server A.
>>
>> On server A saslauthd is configured in rc.conf to use rimap to the
>> localhost:
>>
>> saslauthd_flags="-a rimap \
>>                  -O localhost"    # Use Remote IMAP to authenticat
>>
>> Postfix is configured to use saslauth to authenticate outgoing
>> senders:
>>
>> smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
>> smtpd_sasl_authenticated_header = no
>> smtpd_sasl_exceptions_networks =
>> smtpd_sasl_local_domain =
>> smtpd_sasl_path = smtpd
>> smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
>> smtpd_sasl_service = smtp
>> smtpd_sasl_tls_security_options = $smtpd_sasl_security_options
>> smtpd_sasl_type = cyrus
>>
>>
>> But I cannot find any such file named smtpd.conf which, according to
>> the Postfix documentation, should exist and should contain:
>>
>> pwcheck_method: saslauthd
>> mech_list: PLAIN
>>
>> It appears to me that postfix is directly looking in
>> /usr/local/etc/sasldb2.db itself and, finding no entries, failing to
>> authenticate.  How do I tell postfix to use the saslauthd daemon
>> instead?
>>
>
> You must create the file yourself and adjust it to whatever mech you
> use, in our case it is saslauthd:
>
> cat /usr/local/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf
> pwcheck_method: saslauthd
> mech_list: plain login
>

Thank you.  Do you know where the path to the file location is
specified in the FreeBSD documentation?

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