Athentication problem

[Scott Likens]

I really won't comment on the rest of this email, the only portion I'm  
going to touch on is /etc/sasldb2 no such file or directory.

If nothing else you should 'saslpasswd2 -c cyrus' and then ensure that  
the file is readable by both cyrus and postfix (both should be in the  
group mail, and be owned by cyrus:mail) like,

-rw-r----- 1 cyrus mail 12562 2008-07-09 17:01 sasldb2

Now postfix shouldn't atleast barf like a little kid.

On Jul 15, 2008, at 7:53 PM, Stephen Liu wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
>
> Ubuntu LAMP 6.06 amd64, headless
> Postfix
> cyrus-admin-2.2
> cyrus-clients-2.2
> cyrus-common-2.2
> cyrus-imapd-2.2
> cyrus-pop3d-2.2
> libcyrus-imap-perl22
> libsasl2
> MySQL
> SquirrelMail
>
>
> I have been fighting several days on following problem.
>
>
> The LAMP server is working.  Users can send/receive mails on
> SquirrelMail. Also running "telnet localhost 25" on Xterm mails can be
> sent to/received by outside world.  However users can't send mail via
> the server on their mail client, Evolution.
>
>
> Always complaining;
> Unable to authenticate to SMTP server.
> Bad authentication response from server.
>
> Please enter the SMTP password for user_aaa on host domain.com
> * end *
>
>
>
> On the server Xterm
>
>
> $ tail /var/log/mail.log
> Jul 16 10:00:54 satimis cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb[3848]: done checkpointing
> cyrus databases
> Jul 16 10:00:54 satimis cyrus/master[3841]: process 3848 exited,  
> status
> 0
> Jul 16 10:00:59 satimis postfix/master[4131]: daemon started --  
> version
> 2.2.10, configuration /etc/postfix
> Jul 16 10:03:01 satimis postfix/smtpd[4406]: connect from
> unknown[220.232.213.178]
> Jul 16 10:03:20 satimis postfix/smtpd[4406]: warning: SASL
> authentication problem: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: No
> such file or directory
> Jul 16 10:03:20 satimis postfix/smtpd[4406]: warning: SASL
> authentication problem: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: No
> such file or directory
> Jul 16 10:03:20 satimis postfix/smtpd[4406]: warning: SASL
> authentication failure: Password verification failed
> Jul 16 10:03:20 satimis postfix/smtpd[4406]: warning:
> unknown[220.232.213.178]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed
> Jul 16 10:08:20 satimis postfix/smtpd[4406]: timeout after AUTH from
> unknown[220.232.213.178]
> Jul 16 10:08:20 satimis postfix/smtpd[4406]: disconnect from
> unknown[220.232.213.178]
> * end *
>
>
> $ tail /var/log/mail.err
> Jul 12 14:21:48 satimis last message repeated 3 times
> Jul 13 16:40:55 satimis cyrus/pop3[4628]: refused connection from
> 220.232.213.178
> Jul 13 16:41:20 satimis last message repeated 4 times
> Jul 13 16:41:46 satimis last message repeated 4 times
> Jul 13 16:55:32 satimis cyrus/pop3[4420]: refused connection from
> 220.232.213.178
> Jul 13 16:57:05 satimis cyrus/pop3[4420]: refused connection from
> 220.232.213.178
> Jul 13 16:57:23 satimis cyrus/pop3[4420]: refused connection from
> 220.232.213.178
> Jul 13 16:58:46 satimis cyrus/pop3[4420]: refused connection from
> 220.232.213.178
> Jul 13 16:59:52 satimis cyrus/pop3[4420]: refused connection from
> 220.232.213.178
> Jul 13 17:00:40 satimis cyrus/pop3[4420]: refused connection from
> 220.232.213.178
> * end *
>
>
> But users can receive mails on their mail client, Evolution, with the
> same password.  I suspect it is an authentication problem.
>
>
> Please help.  TIA
>
>
> B.R.
> Stephen L
>
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