Re: [cobalt-users] sasldb Question

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Andrew Danneffel wrote:
>
> 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.
>
  try searching google, there are many references to
  SASL
  Simple Authentication and Security Layer
  And it was one of the updates that set the db file to world readable!

Gerald
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