Logging problems

Andreas Winkelmann ml at awinkelmann.de
Sat Jan 6 13:07:25 EST 2007


On Saturday 06 January 2007 18:58, Herbert Muller wrote:

> I'm new to this mailing list and also new to cyrus sasl. I'm trying to set
> up a mailserver using postfix, but I'm having some serious problems. Before
> I describe my actual problem I have to solve another one which appeared
> during solving my main problem.
>
> I don't know why but suddenly cyrus sasl logging messages don't appear
> anymore in my auth.log. I didn't touch the syslogd-config and loglevel is
> set to 7. The actual problem with that is, that the messages which
> described my main-problem disappeared completely though it is not solved
> yet. The remaining messages only appear in the syslog now. So, how can I
> make cyrus sasl log into auth.log again.

Cyrus-SASL's "loglevel" Setting is in relation to Postfix useless.

Did you restart or at least reload syslogd?

Oh and Postfix does not log to auth.*. Maybe you see something from saslauthd.

> BY the way, the remaining messages which concern my main problem are:
>
> Jan  6 18:50:56 localhost postfix/smtpd[6783]: <
> pD95F72E4.dip.t-dialin.net[217.95.114.228]: EHLO anduril
> Jan  6 18:50:56 localhost postfix/smtpd[6783]: >
> pD95F72E4.dip.t-dialin.net[217.95.114.228]:
> 250-213-239-197-14.clients.your-server.de
> Jan  6 18:50:56 localhost postfix/smtpd[6783]: >
> pD95F72E4.dip.t-dialin.net[217.95.114.228]: 250-PIPELINING
> Jan  6 18:50:56 localhost postfix/smtpd[6783]: >
> pD95F72E4.dip.t-dialin.net[217.95.114.228]: 250-SIZE 10240000
> Jan  6 18:50:56 localhost postfix/smtpd[6783]: >
> pD95F72E4.dip.t-dialin.net[217.95.114.228]: 250-ETRN
> Jan  6 18:50:56 localhost postfix/smtpd[6783]: >
> pD95F72E4.dip.t-dialin.net[217.95.114.228]: 250-STARTTLS
> Jan  6 18:50:56 localhost postfix/smtpd[6783]: >
> pD95F72E4.dip.t-dialin.net[217.95.114.228]: 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN DIGEST-MD5
> CRAM-MD5
> Jan  6 18:50:56 localhost postfix/smtpd[6783]: >
> pD95F72E4.dip.t-dialin.net[217.95.114.228]: 250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN DIGEST-MD5
> CRAM-MD5
> Jan  6 18:50:56 localhost postfix/smtpd[6783]: match_list_match:
> pD95F72E4.dip.t-dialin.net: no match
> Jan  6 18:50:56 localhost postfix/smtpd[6783]: match_list_match:
> 217.95.114.228: no match
> Jan  6 18:50:56 localhost postfix/smtpd[6783]: >
> pD95F72E4.dip.t-dialin.net[217.95.114.228]: 250 8BITMIME
> Jan  6 18:50:56 localhost postfix/smtpd[6783]: watchdog_pat: 0x8086b88
> Jan  6 18:50:56 localhost postfix/smtpd[6783]: <
> pD95F72E4.dip.t-dialin.net[217.95.114.228]: AUTH LOGIN
> Jan  6 18:50:56 localhost postfix/smtpd[6783]: smtpd_sasl_authenticate:
> sasl_method LOGIN
> Jan  6 18:50:56 localhost postfix/smtpd[6783]: smtpd_sasl_authenticate:
> uncoded challenge: Username:
> Jan  6 18:50:56 localhost postfix/smtpd[6783]: >
> pD95F72E4.dip.t-dialin.net[217.95.114.228]: 334 VXNlcm5hbWU6
> Jan  6 18:50:56 localhost postfix/smtpd[6783]: <
> pD95F72E4.dip.t-dialin.net[217.95.114.228]: bRFpfEBzenKlLmRl
> Jan  6 18:50:56 localhost postfix/smtpd[6783]: smtpd_sasl_authenticate:
> decoded response: mail at beispiel.de
> Jan  6 18:50:56 localhost postfix/smtpd[6783]: smtpd_sasl_authenticate:
> uncoded challenge: Password:
> Jan  6 18:50:56 localhost postfix/smtpd[6783]: >
> pD95F72E4.dip.t-dialin.net[217.95.114.228]: 334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6
> Jan  6 18:50:56 localhost postfix/smtpd[6783]: <
> pD95F72E4.dip.t-dialin.net[217.95.114.228]: ckdINTVlQ0Q=

If your Password is "rGH55eCD", change it.

> Jan  6 18:50:56 localhost postfix/smtpd[6783]: smtpd_sasl_authenticate:
> decoded response: xxxxxxxx
> Jan  6 18:50:56 localhost postfix/smtpd[6783]: warning:
> pD95F72E4.dip.t-dialin.net[217.95.114.228]: SASL LOGIN authentication
> failed Jan  6 18:50:56 localhost postfix/smtpd[6783]: >
> pD95F72E4.dip.t-dialin.net[217.95.114.228]: 535 Error: authentication
> failed Jan  6 18:50:56 localhost postfix/smtpd[6783]: watchdog_pat:
> 0x8086b88 Jan  6 18:50:56 localhost postfix/smtpd[6783]: smtp_get: EOF
> Jan  6 18:50:56 localhost postfix/smtpd[6783]: lost connection after AUTH
> from pD95F72E4.dip.t-dialin.net[217.95.114.228]
> Jan  6 18:50:56 localhost postfix/smtpd[6783]: disconnect from
> pD95F72E4.dip.t-dialin.net[217.95.114.228]

Show your configuration, "postconf -n", smtpd.conf, master.cf.

-- 
	Andreas


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