User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20080716 CentOS/1.5.0.12-0.21.el4.centos Firefox/1.5.0.12 pango-text config files for sasl applications are stored in /usr/lib/sasl2 instead of /etc (or /etc/sasl2) eg: rpm -qf /usr/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf sendmail-8.13.1-3.3.el4 This is also mentioned in 14.5.1. Configuring slapd to use an authentication provider http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/security.html#Pass-Through%20authentication There is a comment in lib/server.c /* get the path to the plugins; for now the config file will reside there */ and then calls _sasl_find_getpath_callback The latest version (cyrus-sasl-2.1.22) has been changed and now uses _sasl_find_getconfpath_callback which can be configured with the --with-configdir option. Reproducible: Always
We cannot change this in already released Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution. It is fixed in the RHEL-5 release cyrus-sasl package.