Hello,
Thanks for your reply. In this environment chrooting authentication is a
have to.
Thanks.
Dave.

"Greg Hackney" <hackney@swbell.net> wrote in message
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> Dave wrote:
>
>> i'm getting an error about can not contact the saslauthd daemon, no such
>> file or directory. I'm chrooting all possible
>> postfix processes and have configured saslauthd to place it's files
>> within
>> the postfix chroot area.
>
> Just in taking a blind wild guess, it probably has something to do with
> the
> chrooting effort. Probably something simple such as as missing system
> support file
> in the chrooted area.
>
> I just looked in the Postfix source code at the SASL_README file. It says:
>
>
> "To run software chrooted with SASL support is an interesting exercise. It
> probably is not worth the trouble."
>
>
> :-)
>
> --
> Greg
>
>
>