sasl authentication problems

[Igor Brezac]

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Fred Blaise wrote:

> On 8/24/05, Etienne Goyer <etienne.goyer at videotron.ca> wrote:
>> Fred Blaise wrote:
>>> I am trying to fix the cyrus SASL authentication against openLDAP, I guess.
>>>
>>> When I run that, here is the error:
>>> --------------------------------------------
>>> OX1:~# ldapsearch -D "cn=manager,dc=ilr,dc=lu" -h ldapsmb-pdc.ilr.lu
>>> -b "dc=ilr,dc=lu" "(uid=sp)"
>>> SASL/DIGEST-MD5 authentication started
>>> Please enter your password:
>>> ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: Internal (implementation specific) error (80)
>>>        additional info: SASL(-13): user not found: no secret in database
>>
>> You would need to use simple bind to authenticate using the userPassword
>> attribute; try "ldapsearch -W -x -D..." instead.  If you worry about
>> sending password cleartext, consider using SSL/TLS.
> I am running TLS.. an ldapsearch -ZZ works fine with the -x simple bind.
> However, cyrus -> saslauthd (PAM) -> pam_ldap requires an SASL
> authentication on the ldap server, am I right?

If you are going setup sasl in openldap, I suggest you use ldapdb 
auxprop module, otherwise you can use built-in ldap support in saslauthd.

-- 
Igor