[cobalt-users] sasldb Question

["Andrew Danneffel" <adanneffel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Just today I started getting these errors in my maillog:

Jul 25 19:15:03 raq1 sendmail[1020]: error: safesasl(/etc/sasldb) failed:
Group readable file

I searched the archives and learned a fix is to chmod the /etc/sasldb file
to 600, which I've done.  However, I'm hoping someone can provide some
clarification as to just what this sasldb file is for.  I haven't installed
any patches on my system of late and as these errors were seemingly not
appearing before, I'm wondering what toggled them.

I also ran /usr/sbin/sasldblistusers and found:

user: [USER] realm: raq1.mydomain.com mech: PLAIN
user: [USER] realm: raq1.mydomain.com mech: CRAM-MD5

(Where [USER] is a username on the system)

I suspect this user's doing something to toggle the errors (or make use of
sasldb which wasn't seemingly being used before, otherwise I would have seen
the errors).

Any clarification on the purpose and operation of sasldb would be
appreciated.

Thanks,

Andrew