sasl login authentication failed generic failure

Tue May 31 10:03:44 EDT 2011

Am Tue, 31 May 2011 14:50:19 +0300
schrieb kibirango moses <kibsmoses at gmail.com>:

> Hullo Users,
> I setting up a mailserver with smtp authentication and the backend
> database is mysql 5.1.53 with pam_mysql and cyrus-sasl2 2.1.23 on
> slackware linux 13.1.When i telnet to test my server side
> authenication it gives me the error
> below:
> May 31 10:26:24 xxxxx postfix/smtpd[1475]: xsasl_cyrus_server_next:
> decoded response:
> May 31 10:26:24 xxxxx postfix/smtpd[1475]: warning: SASL
> authentication failure: All-whitespace username.
> May 31 10:26:24 xxxxx postfix/smtpd[1475]: warning:
> localhost[127.0.0.1]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: generic
> failure
[...]

Could you post the server client responds of the telnet session?
How did you create a LOGIN string?

-Dieter

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