Newbie lament on SASL authentication with Postscript...

[Dan White]

On 08/07/11 19:28 +0200, Bernard T. Higonnet wrote:
>On 07/08/11 13:33, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
>>Which system/distribution are you on and where is your smtpd.conf?
>
>FreeBSD freebsd2.higonnet.net 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0: Thu 
>Feb 17 02:41:51 UTC 2011 
>root at mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>
>postfix/master[3023]: daemon started -- version 2.8.3
>
>the version of Cyrus SASL in ports is cyrus-sasl-2.1.23 but I can't 
>guarantee that's what I'm using (I've done so many things and built 
>stuff...)
>
>But I have finally put smtpd.conf where it belongs, 
>/usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf, or at least where both saslfinger and 
>postfix van find it since I now get this:
>
>250-AUTH LOGIN
>250-AUTH=LOGIN
>
>As of now, with
>pwcheck_method: authdaemond in smtpd.conf
>I get
>
>Jul  8 19:09:10 freebsd2 postfix/smtpd[3026]: warning: SASL 
>authentication failure: could not verify password
>Jul  8 19:09:10 freebsd2 postfix/smtpd[3026]: warning: 
>shopi.higonnet.net[192.168.3.111]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: 
>generic failure
>
>when I try to connect from a Thunderbird client and
>
>Jul  8 19:11:20 freebsd2 postfix/smtpd[3046]: warning: 
>freebsd.higonnet.net[192.168.3.102]: SASL LOGIN authentication 
>failed: authentication failure

Check your syslog (auth facility) for additional information.

You should verify you have the plain and login shared libraries installed
with 'pluginviewer'.

Verify that your libsasl2 installation was compiled with
'--with-authdaemond'.

authdaemond_path defaults to /dev/null, unless your libsasl2 installation
was compiled with a specific. What, if anything, do you have configured for
that value? Where is your authdamon socket in your filesystem? Does postfix
have read/write access to it?

Can you run authdaemon in debug mode and see if Postfix is even attempting
to connect to it?

-- 
Dan White