Postfix + SASL + MySQL = PROBLEM

Patrick Ben Koetter p at state-of-mind.de
Sun Oct 30 03:59:58 EST 2005


* Andreas Winkelmann <ml at awinkelmann.de>:
> > I want to use mysql database to manage smtp authentication.
> > I'm installing cyrus-sasl-2.1.21 with mysql support (from source
> > code).
> > Here is my smtpd.conf
> >
> > pwcheck_method: auxprop
> > auxprop_plugin: sql
> > sql_engine: mysql
> > sql_hostnames: localhost
> > sql_user: mailuser
> > sql_password: 123456
> > sql_database: maildb
> > sql_select: SELECT passwd FROM users WHERE userid='%u'
> > sql_verbose: yes
> >
> > I'm running postfix.
> > And when I'm sending mail, in /var/log/maillog I can see:
> >
> > postfix/smtpd[14871]: warning: SASL authentication failure: no secret
> > in database
> > postfix/smtpd[14871]: warning: unknown[192.168.0.51]: SASL CRAM-MD5
> > authentication failed
> > postfix/smtpd[14871]: warning: SASL authentication failure: Password
> > verification failed
> > postfix/smtpd[14871]: warning: unknown[192.168.0.51]: SASL PLAIN
> > authentication failed
> > postfix/smtpd[14871]: warning: unknown[192.168.0.51]: SASL LOGIN
> > authentication failed
> >
> > What's wrong?
> 
> Which distribution do you use?
> 
> Check other Logs, too. auth.*, messages,...

Run "saslfinger -s" (see my signature) and send output to the list.

p at rick

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