telnet hangs on the sasl2 part

[Roelof Wobben]

Op 2-6-2017 om 09:01 schreef Dan White:
> On 06/02/17 08:31 +0200, Roelof Wobben wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have this in my main.cf :
>>
>> smtpd_sasl_path = smtpd
>> smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
>>
>> in my sasl2 config file I have this :
>>
>> pwcheck_method = auxprop
>> auxprop_plugin = sasldb2
>> mech_list = plain login cram-md5 digest-md5 ntlm
>>
>> But still when I do telnet localhost 25 and then ehlo localhost I
>> see no respons what so ever.
>>
>> On the mailllog I see these errors : <br>
>>
>> Jun  1 18:07:11 localhost postfix/smtpd[9650]: warning: SASL 
>> per-process initialization failed: error when parsing configuration file
>> Jun  1 18:07:11 localhost postfix/smtpd[9650]: fatal: SASL 
>> per-process initialization failed
>> Jun  1 18:07:12 localhost postfix/master[2315]: warning: process 
>> /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 9650 exit status 1
>> Jun  1 18:07:12 localhost postfix/master[2315]: warning: 
>> /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling
>> Jun  1 18:08:12 localhost postfix/smtpd[9652]: warning: SASL 
>> per-process initialization failed: error when parsing configuration file
>> Jun  1 18:08:12 localhost postfix/smtpd[9652]: fatal: SASL 
>> per-process initialization failed
>> Jun  1 18:08:13 localhost postfix/master[2315]: warning: process 
>> /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 9652 exit status 1
>> Jun  1 18:08:13 localhost postfix/master[2315]: warning: 
>> /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling
>> Jun  1 18:09:13 localhost postfix/smtpd[9653]: warning: SASL 
>> per-process initialization failed: error when parsing configuration file
>> Jun  1 18:09:13 localhost postfix/smtpd[9653]: fatal: SASL 
>> per-process initialization failed
>> Jun  1 18:09:14 localhost postfix/master[2315]: warning: process 
>> /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 9653 exit status 1
>> Jun  1 18:09:14 localhost postfix/master[2315]: warning: 
>> /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling
>> Jun  1 18:11:09 localhost postfix/postfix-script[1540]: starting the 
>> Postfix mail system
>> Jun  1 18:11:09 localhost postfix/master[1542]: daemon started -- 
>> version 2.10.1, configuration /etc/postfix
>>
>> The user of the sasldb2 is postfix:root
>> What can be the culprit here?
>> I know I have to use tls and encrypted passwords but thet is not 
>> discussed yet in the postfix documentation that I follow. I follow 
>> this page : http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html
>
> The 'warning: SASL per-process initialization failed' is a postfix error,
> indicating a likely configuration problem within postfix.
>
> See auth.debug syslog entries for any cyrus sasl errors.
>


Bummer, on the postfix ML they say it a cyrsus-sasl error.
Can someone give me a hint how I can search for this.

I tried   grep "auth.debug" /var/log/messages     and grep "auth.debug"  
dmesg and looked at the journalctl but no entries are found.

Roelof