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- Cyrus SASL for Debian
- ---------------------
-
- SASL is the Simple Authentication and Security Layer, a method for adding
- authentication support to connection-based protocols. This is the Debian
- package of Cyrus SASL, which is an implementation of SASL by Carnegie Mellon
- University.
-
- The package stays as close as possible to the upstream version, but some
- changes have been introduced to fix known issues and to better integrate
- the software with the Debian system. For example, some command line utilities
- have been renamed with a "sasl" prefix, in order to avoid naming collisions.
- The software has been split into several packages, so a system administrator
- can choose what functionality to install and what to leave out.
-
- IMPORTANT:
- You MUST install one of the libsasl2-modules* packages for SASL to work with
- server programs. Otherwise server software like Postfix and Cyrus IMAPd will
- not allow any users to log in, and other SASL apps will malfuntion in weird
- ways. If you do not intend to use SASL on your server, then the
- libsasl2-modules* packages are not necessary for you.
-
- SASL uses /dev/urandom, which doesn't block when the system runs out of
- entropy. However, when the system does run out of entropy, the random numbers
- that /dev/urandom emits are slightly less cryptographically secure. If you are
- concerned about this, then please turn to the kernel documentation or other
- sources to determine what this means in your case. In practise, /dev/urandom is
- just fine for the vast majority of cases. If you want to use /dev/random for
- whatever reason, you have to recompile the packages. (Change --with-devrandom
- in debian/rules.)
-
- Use dpkg-statoverride to change the permission and the ownership of the
- saslauthd socket /var/run/saslauthd and the sasldb user database /etc/sasldb2.
- For more information on saslauthd, see the README.Debian in the sasl2-bin
- package.
-
- For more information about SASL, please see http://asg.web.cmu.edu/sasl/, and
- for more information about Cyrus SASL, see
- http://asg.web.cmu.edu/sasl/sasl-library.html. Also see the following RFC
- documents, which are currently not distributed with the Debian packages:
-
- rfc1321.txt rfc1939.txt rfc2104.txt rfc2195.txt rfc2222.txt
- rfc2243.txt rfc2245.txt rfc2289.txt rfc2444.txt rfc2595.txt
- rfc2831.txt rfc2945.txt rfc3174.txt
-
- The project information page http://pkg-cyrus-sasl2.alioth.debian.org/
- contains details about the Debian packaging project. All comments and bug
- reports are welcome, please use the Debian Bug Tracking System to submit them.
-
- -- Fabian Fagerholm <fabbe@debian.org>, Fri, 9 Jun 2008 21:08:07 +0300
-