FreeBSD & Postfix & Cyrus SASL & Courier Authdaemond

[Richard Secor]

# ls -l /usr/local | grep var
drwx------   5 mysql  mysql  1024 Feb 28 23:24 var
# chmod 755 /usr/local/var

Whoops...lol.
And this is why it's always best to ask. Sometimes you never see  
everything.

Well now that that's not giving me an error message....
on to the rest.

Thanks again.
-Rich

On Mar 2, 2006, at 11:44 AM, Leandro Santi wrote:

> Richard Secor, 2006-03-02:
>> From system logs:
>> warning: SASL authentication failure: cannot connect to Courier
>> authdaemond: Permission denied
>>
>> ...
>>
>> # ls -l /usr/local/var/spool |grep authdaemon
>> drwxr-x---  2 postfix  postfix  512 Mar  1 01:42 authdaemon
>>
>> # ls -l /usr/local/var/spool/authdaemon/socket
>> srwxrwxrwx  1 root  postfix  0 Mar  1 01:42 /usr/local/var/spool/
>> authdaemon/socket
>>
>> What I've tried:
>> Changing permissions on /usr/local/var/spool/authdaemon. (Even tried
>> 777.)
>
> What about /usr, /usr/local, ... (i.e. every other directory
> in the middle)?
>
> Leandro.