Bug 113975
Summary: | posfix 2.0.16-2 provides /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd, which it should not be providing | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide | Reporter: | Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin> |
Component: | postfix | Assignee: | John Dennis <jdennis> |
Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | high | ||
Version: | 1.0 | CC: | florin |
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Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2004-02-24 23:14:34 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Nalin Dahyabhai
2004-01-20 21:21:35 UTC
I thought the process worked like this, you can tell me if I have a misunderstanding or why my reasoning is not valid. Authentication preferences are controlled by PAM. Thus a system administrator can go to one well known place (e.g. /etc/pam.d) and set the authentication for a variety of services. Also because of the way PAM can "chain" together configurations you can build heirarchies and pick up defaults. One of the possibilities PAM offers is shadow. Thus the configuration Postfix provides says "let the centralized authentication service be consulted on how to authenticate" and if the sys admin wants shadow for smtp they get it, or if thats the system wide default they get it. If saslauthd specifies "shadow" aren't we bypassing the centralized authentication configuration we are encouraging sys admins to use? *** Bug 114868 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 114868 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** config file installed by postfix is now removed in RHEL 3 Update 2 and FC2. Closing. |