sasl service for other app

[justina colmena ~biz]

https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/authentication/sql/#password-verification-by-sql-server

Perfect. However on Postfix it is more finicky.

https://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html#auxprop_sql
> Tip
> If you must store encrypted passwords, you cannot use the sql auxprop plugin. Instead, see section "Using saslauthd with PAM", and configure PAM to look up the encrypted passwords with, for example, the pam_mysql module. You will not be able to use any of the methods that require access to plaintext passwords, such as the shared-secret methods CRAM-MD5 and DIGEST-MD5.

On Thursday, December 8, 2022 10:17:11 AM AKST, Alessio Cecchi wrote:
> Yes,
>
> we are using dovecot, also, for SASL only as authentication provider.
>
> Here some relevants parts of the configuration:
>
> # probably not necessary but dovecot requires it so i set it to /tmp/
>
> mail_location = maildir:/tmp/%u/Maildir:INDEX=memory
>
> # setup a mysql database with your users and password
> passdb {
>   args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
>   driver = sql
> }
>
> userdb {
>   args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext
>   driver = sql
> }
>
> # here is the most important part, with this you can query SASL 
> via port "12345" or via socket
> service auth {
>   inet_listener {
>     port = 12345
>   }
>   unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
>     group = postfix
>     mode = 0660
>     user = postfix
>   }
> }
>
> # SASL don't support SSL
> ssl = no
>
> Ciao
>
> Il 08/12/22 05:53, Henry R ha scritto:
>> can dovecot run as a general sasl service for other apps? such as webdav.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>