sendmail as MSA and client side GSSAPI

Victor Sudakov vas at mpeks.no-spam-here.tomsk.su
Tue Mar 18 22:52:41 EDT 2008


In comp.mail.sendmail Victor Sudakov <vas at mpeks.no-spam-here.tomsk.su> 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.

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Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
2:5005/49 at fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/



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