postfix + saslauthd: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: no mechanism available

[Patrick Ben Koetter]

* Dan White <dwhite at olp.net>:
> On 01/12/11 12:34 +0100, Ana Díez wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm working to configure SASL (2.1.25) with Postfix 2.7.1. in Solaris 10.
> >
> >I'm running saslauthd with ldap:
> >
> >/usr/local/sbin/saslauthd -a ldap
> >
> >And running manually "testsaslauthd" works ok
> ># /usr/local/sbin/testsaslauthd -u xxxx -p xxxxx
> >0: OK "Success."
> >
> >But Postfix seems to ignore the "pwcheck_method". Although I set it as
> >"saslauthd", I receive "could not find auxprop plugin, was searching for
> >'[all]'", "SASL PLAIN authentication failed: no mechanism available" im my
> >logs.
> >
> >The file /usr/local/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf:
> 
> I believe Postfix overwrites the confdir path via a callback. It appears
> that it is:
> 
> *path = concatenate(var_config_dir, "/", "sasl:/usr/lib/sasl2", (char *) 0);
> 
> For example:
> 
> /etc/postfix/sasl:/usr/lib/sasl2

I only know Debianzed Postfix versions to overwrite the SASL path. Others
should follow SASL defaults.

p at rick


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