sasl problem (sigh)

[Ian Hunter]

The problem was that I had postfix build with sasl1 support, and I had sasl2
libraries.

Thanks, though!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Murchison" <ken at oceana.com>
To: "Ian Hunter" <ihunter at hunterweb.net>
Cc: <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: sasl problem (sigh)


> Ian Hunter wrote:
>
> > I was utterly convinced this was a postfix issue, but now I'm utterly
> > convinced this is a saslauthd issue.
> >
> > Oh, go ahead and flame away if this is not an appropriate forum for
> > saslauthd config problems, but after you've torched me, refer me to the
> > right place :)
> >
> > I am running Redhat 9 with cyrus-sasl-2.1.18-5 that I installed from an
RPM.
> > I can make testsaslauthd work every time, hence my prior belief that
this
> > was a postfix issue.  My problem is that when the postfix smtpd daemon
makes
> > to call to the sasl library and and it connects to the saslauthd socket
at
> > /var/run/saslauthd/mux, and submits correct authentication parameters,
it
> > gets a "NO" when testsaslauthd from the command line gets an "OK."
> >
> > As I said, testsaslauthd from the command line is working peachy, and
the
> > way I know so much about the connections on behalf of the postfix smtpd
> > daemon is I ran an strace, and got this stuff:
> >
> > First, happy stuff:
> >
> > [root at charlie root]# testsaslauthd -u ihunter -p noyb -f
> > /var/run/saslauthd/mux
> > 0: OK "Success."
>
> I notice that you're not specifying a servicename (-s) or a realm (-r)
> when you run testsaslauthd which means "imap" and "" are being used
> respectively.  My guess is that you're using a saslauthd backend which
> depends on the service and realm to be correct (PAM, LDAP?).  Make sure
> you have your saslauthd backend configured correctly for service "smtp"
> and whatever realm Postfix is using.
>
> >
> > Now, unhappy stuff:
> >
> > Jul 20 14:57:29 charlie logger: connect(15, {sa_family=AF_UNIX,
> > path="/var/run/saslauthd/mux"}, 110) = 0
> > Jul 20 14:57:29 charlie logger: write(15, "ihunter\0noyb\0", 17)    = 17
> > Jul 20 14:57:29 charlie logger: read(15, "\0\3NO ", 1023)
= 5
> >
> > (if you're checking the lengths of strings, I changed my password to
"none
> > of your business" above)
> >
> > Help?
> >
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