Postfix, SASL and LDAPDB: no worthy mech found

[Julien Vehent]

On Thu, 20 May 2010 11:23:14 -0500, Dan White <dwhite at olp.net> wrote:
> I checked an older Debian install I have and smtpd is chrooted out of
the
> box.
> 
> Check your /etc/postfix/master.cf entry for smtpd:
> 
> #
>
==========================================================================
> # service type  private unpriv  chroot  wakeup  maxproc command + args
> #               (yes)   (yes)   (yes)   (never) (100)
> #
>
==========================================================================
> smtp      inet  n       -       -       -       -       smtpd
> 
> To troubleshoot, mark all your services as non chrooted temporarily, or
you
> could modify your /etc/init.d/postfix script, underneath:
> 
>    # see if anything is running chrooted.
> 
> and copy the contents of /usr/lib/sasl2 into the chroot.

Ugh !!! 
Thanks ! once again, I've been to hasty to answer. I completely forgot
about this behavior, it's so rare to have chrooted daemons by default...

I removed the chroot and I see DIGEST-MD5 negociation. It still doesn't
work but that already a great progression ! Thanks a lot.


Julien