sendmail as MSA and client side GSSAPI

Nicolas Williams Nicolas.Williams at sun.com
Mon Apr 7 14:48:32 EDT 2008


On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 02:52:43PM +0000, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> > Nicolas Williams wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Now how do I enable GSSAPI authentication for local users? What should
> > > > > I put into the /etc/mail/authinfo file so that each local user who has
> > > > > a Kerberos ticket could authenticate herself to the mailhub?
> > > > 
> > > > > The users send mail from mutt, pine etc by calling /usr/sbin/sendmail.
> > > > 
> > > > Am I asking something extraordinary?
> > > > 
> > > > fetchmail works fine as GSSAPI client, so there is no more need to
> > > > store a password in the config for receiving mail. I wish we could do
> > > > the same for sending.
> 
> > > Actually, I want to know about this too.  I'll ask Sun's sendmail
> > > contact.
> 
> Nicolas, any results?

I followed up on March 19th on the list.  I seem to recall my e-mails to
you bouncing, so see the list archives.



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