Self compiled Cyrus 2.4.16 does not talk to self compiled Cyrus SASL 2.1.25

[Eric Luyten]

On Tue, June 19, 2012 3:55 pm, Dan White wrote:
> On 06/19/12 11:17 +0200, Eric Luyten wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>>
>>
>> (hitting the same wall over and over again when upgrading)
>>
>>
>>
>> Cyrus SASL is working/looking in /var/state/saslauthd all
>> right, but Cyrus 2.4 appears to be writing elsewhere, and we cannot find out
>> where exactly.
>>
>> Have tried 'saslauthd_path' option in /etc/imapd.conf to
>> no avail. I pretty much copied our Cyrus 2.3 configuration files over
>> to the test environment.
>
> What does your sasl_* configuration look like in imapd.conf?


Dan,


Switching to the Blastwave-packaged Cyrus-SASL 2.1.25 and adding
sasl_saslauthd_path: /var/opt/csw/saslauthd/mux to /etc/imapd.conf
did the trick.
Cyrus 2.4.16 and SASL 2.1.25 now happily communicating.


Eric Luyten.




> Are you authenticating with an appropriate mechanism (either PLAIN or
> LOGIN)?
>
>
> On 06/19/12 13:34 +0200, Eric Luyten wrote:
>
>> On Tue, June 19, 2012 12:05 pm, Adam  Tauno Williams wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 11:17 +0200, Eric Luyten wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> (hitting the same wall over and over again when upgrading)
>>>> Cyrus SASL is working/looking in /var/state/saslauthd all
>>>> right, but Cyrus 2.4 appears to be writing elsewhere, and we cannot find
>>>> out where exactly.
>>>
>>> Are you sure it is loading your compiled libraries and not your
>>> distributions 'defacto' ones?  [ldd /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/imapd - your should
>>> see a reference to your SASL libraries]
>>
>>
>> mcs1dev# ldd /usr/local/sbin/saslauthd | fgrep sasl libsasl2.so.2 =>
>> /opt/csw/lib/libsasl2.so.2
>> mcs1dev# ldd /usr/cyrus/bin/imapd | fgrep sasl libsasl2.so.2 =>
>> /opt/csw/lib/libsasl2.so.2
>> mcs1dev#
>
> The location of the shared libraries for the saslauthd should not be
> important (unless you're using the sasldb or ldap backends), because it runs
> within its own process. If testsaslauthd is working then your saslauthd
> installation is likely ok. Try running testsaslauthd as your cyrus user to
> rule out any permissions problems.
>
>>> BTW - why are you self-compiling?  Really good packages exist for lots
>>> of distributions.
>>
>>
>> Solaris10/Intel.
>>
>>
>>
>>>> Have tried 'saslauthd_path' option in /etc/imapd.conf to
>>>> no avail.
>>>
>>> So when you run testsaslauthd it works?
>>>
>>
>>
>> Yes, it certainly does.
>>
>
> Your saslauthd_path configuration should include the trailing '/mux'.  I
> believe it should be identical to the '-f' option that you would pass to
> testsaslauthd.
>
> Try increasing your sasl logging to further troubleshoot. In imapd.conf:
>
>
> sasl_log_level: 7
>
>
> And configure your syslog daemon to log 'auth.*'.
>
>
> --
> Dan White
>
>