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diff --git a/source/n/cyrus-sasl/rc.saslauthd b/source/n/cyrus-sasl/rc.saslauthd new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8b69a710 --- /dev/null +++ b/source/n/cyrus-sasl/rc.saslauthd @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +#!/bin/sh +# rc.saslauthd: start/stop/restart saslauthd +# +# saslauthd is a daemon process that handles plaintext authentication +# requests on behalf of the SASL library. The CMU Cyrus SASL library +# is a general purpose authentication library for sever and client +# applications. It is mostly used to authenticate to mail servers. +# +# saslauthd should be started from the system boot scripts when going +# to multi-user mode. When running against a protected authentication +# database (e.g. the shadow mechanism), it must be run as the superuser. +# + +saslauthd_start() { + # If saslauthd is not running, start it: + if [ ! -r /var/state/saslauthd/saslauthd.pid ]; then + # Use shadow authentication by default on Slackware: + echo "Starting SASL authentication daemon: /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a shadow" + /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a shadow + fi +} + +saslauthd_stop() { + kill `cat /var/state/saslauthd/saslauthd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null + sleep 1 +} + +saslauthd_restart() { + saslauthd_stop + saslauthd_start +} + +case "$1" in +'start') + saslauthd_start + ;; +'stop') + saslauthd_stop + ;; +'restart') + saslauthd_restart + ;; +*) + echo "usage $0 start|stop|restart" +esac |