AUTH failure (LOGIN): user not found (-20) SASL(-13): user not found: checkpass failed

[Andreas Winkelmann]

Am Wednesday 14 June 2006 10:54 schrieb fredrik.pettai at vattenfall.com:

> Now with the newly compiled cyrus-sasl-2.1.22, i get another (perhaps
> better) error message instead. So I guess I had a incorrect
> blastwave-package config, or strange problem?!
>
> Well, with this new sasl2, I have tried Sendmail.conf containing:
>
> checkpw_method: saslauthd, or checkpw_method: shadow

pwcheck_method: saslauthd

> And running:
>
> saslauthd -a shadow -V, or saslauthd -a pam -V
>
> But I always get this error in the syslog-logfile, then I try to use MS
> OE:
>
> AUTH failure (LOGIN): user not found (-20) SASL(-13): user not found:
> checkpass failed
>
> Then I run testsaslauthd -u user -p pass, it gives me:
> 0: OK "Success."
>
> So i guess the problem lies between sendmail <-> cyrus-sasl in some way.
>
> (I have also created a user with saslpasswd2, the same user that is in
> /etc/passwd & /etc/shadow, but error is still no luck. But I guess that
> was unnecessary, but at least I tried it out :-) )
>
> Any more clues of that I'm doing wrong here?

-- 
	Andreas