SASL2, sendmail, pam, auth failed

[Alexander Dalloz]

Alex schrieb:

>hello,
>
>well, to put it briefly, i can't get sendmail to authentificate,
>although i made all by the book (..i think)
>so,i use a sendmail DUAL configuration with amavisd
>
>  
>
[ ... ]

>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>#less Sendmail.conf
>pwcheck_method:saslauthd
>mech_list: LOGIN PLAIN
>saslauthd_path:/var/opt/csw/saslauthd
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  
>
Your problem is the "saslauthd_path" setting. From options.html in the docs:

saslauthd_path        SASL Library
Path to saslauthd run directory (<b>including</b> the "/mux" named pipe)

>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>ll /var/opt/csw/saslauthd
>Gesamt 6
>drwxrws---   2 root     sasl         512 Jul 13 13:48 ./
>drwxr-xr-x   3 root     bin          512 Jul  7 16:12 ../
>srwxrwxrwx   1 root     sasl           0 Jul 13 13:48 mux=
>-rw-------   1 root     sasl           0 Jul 13 13:48 mux.accept
>-rw-------   1 root     sasl           4 Jul 13 13:48 saslauthd.pid
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  
>
In Sendmail.conf (if it is even necessary at all):
saslauthd_path: /var/opt/csw/saslauthd/mux

>Alex Thor.
>  
>
Regards

Alexander