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PAM, the pluggable authentication module, is the default way of authenticating users on Solaris and Linux. It can be configured to check passwords in many different ways: through Radius, through NIS, through LDAP, or even using the traditional /etc/passwd file. If you wish to use PAM for authentication and the Cyrus SASL library found the PAM library when it was configured at compilation time, it is the default (or set "pwcheck_method" to "PAM"). It uses PAM with the service name (for example, Sendmail uses "smtp" and Cyrus imapd uses "imap").
The PAM authentication for SASL only affects the plaintext authentication it does. It has no effect on the other mechanisms, so it is incorrect to try to use PAM to enforce additional restrictions beyond correct password on an application that uses SASL for authentication.
2005-05-04