saslauthd & PAM??

[John Wright]

Jeff,

Perhaps try sasldblistusers2 to check your user database?

- John Wright
Starfire Research

On 11/25/2011 4:28 PM, jeff at bubble.org wrote:
> I'm running a Fedora 16 system, recently upgraded from Fedora 15 and I am
> unable to get saslauthd to authenticate users.
>
> What I have been able to figure out so far is that the parameters are
> being passed to saslautd (eg testsaslauthd -u username -p password -s
> smtp) but saslauthd appears to simply sit on the request, running a strace
> -f -p xxxx on the saslauthd process I can see my username and password
> sitting there but that's it, its just sitting there.
>
> output from strace:
> fcntl(6, F_SETLKW, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0,
> len=1}{sa_family=AF_FILE, NULL}, [2]) = 7
> fcntl(6, F_SETLKW, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=1}) = 0
> ) = 0
> accept(5, read(7, "\0\4", 2)                      = 2
> read(7, "username", 4)                  = 4
> read(7, "\0\6", 2)                      = 2
> read(7, "passwd", 6)                    = 6
> read(7, "\0\4", 2)                      = 2
> read(7, "smtp", 4)                      = 4
> read(7, "\0\0", 2)                      = 2
> read(7,
>
> I think this means that testsaslauthd is passing the query to saslauthd
> correctlybut saslauthd for whatever reason isn't contacting PAM properly.
>
> sysconfig/saslauthd:
>
> SOCKETDIR=/var/run/saslauthd
> MECH=pam
> FLAGS=
>
> /etc/pam.d/smtp:
>
> #%PAM-1.0
> auth		include		password-auth
> account		include		password-auth
>
>
> selinux is disabled
>
> I'm probably missing something pretty simple but not sure where to look,
> suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks, Jeff
>
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