Cyrus + LDAP Suggestions/Help

[Igor Brezac]

On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Michael Nguyen wrote:

>> On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Michael Nguyen wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Igor,
>
>>>> What do you get in syslog (authlog)?
>>>
>>> I get these errors:
>>>
>>> Nov  6 20:03:17 dev2 pop3[15192]: DBERROR: reading
> /var/imap/db/skipstamp,
>>> assuming the worst: No such file or directory
>>> Nov  6 20:03:18 dev2 pop3[15192]: skiplist: recovered
> /var/imap/mailboxes.db
>>> (0 records, 144 bytes) in 1 second
>>> Nov  6 20:03:22 dev2 pop3[15192]: cannot connect to saslauthd server: No
>>> such file or directory
>>
>> Is saslauthd running?
>
> Yes it is.
>
> 3920 1840 ?        S    11:59   0:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -m
> /var/run/saslauthd/mux -a ldap -c -t 900 -O /usr/local/etc/saslauthd.conf
>
> [snip]
>
>> saslauthd.conf
>>
>> If saslauthd is running, you will need to specify sasl_saslauthd_path
>> param in imapd.conf.
>
> I don't see this parameter mentioned in the imapd.conf man page.  It is the
> path to the saslauthd binary?

No.

This a cyrus sasl param which can be specified in imapd.conf via sasl_ 
prefix.  See sasl_option in imapd.conf.

> sasl_saslauthd_path: /usr/sbin/saslauthd
>
> A Google search suggested I do this:
>

Google is great, but I'd always start with the source distribution first. 
See $cyrus-sasl-src/doc.

> sasl_saslauthd_path: /var/run/saslauthd/mux
>

Based on your saslauthd startup you need to use (unless you have some 
vendor specific cyrus-sasl version):
sasl_saslauthd_path: /var/run/saslauthd/mux/mux

> I haven't found what this value actually is supposed to be yet though.
>
>
> Michael
>
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