upgrade to cyrus_imap or saslauth or both gon horribly wrong

[Michael Menge]

Hi,


Quoting James B Byrne <byrnejb at gmx.com>:

>> FreeBSD-11.2p7
>> cyrus-imapd30-3.0.8_2
>> cyrus-sasl-saslauthd-2.1.27
>> cyrus-sasl-2.1.27
>>
>> This morning we upgraded our cyrus_imap server using the FreeBSD  
>> pkg package manager.  Following this we are unable to authenticate  
>> with imap.  The error we receive is this:
>>
>> Jan  8 14:05:37 inet17 CYRUS/imaps[40533]: SASL cannot connect to  
>> saslauthd server: Permission denied
>> Jan  8 14:05:37 inet17 CYRUS/imaps[40533]: badlogin: servername  
>> [server address] plaintext username SASL(-1): generic failure:  
>> checkpass failed
>>
>> imapd.conf was not changed.  it contains this:
>>
>> sasl_mech_list:             PLAIN
>> sasl_pwcheck_method:        saslauthd
>>
>>
>> I am posting this from a temporary email because, duhh, I cannot  
>> access my regular mailbox.
>>
>> I am open to any reasonable suggestions as to how to fix this, quickly.
>
> However, if I do this then I get a success.
>
> read -ers -p 'prompt: ' PASSWD ; echo -e '\n'
> prompt:
>
> read -ers -p 'prompt: ' USERNAME ; echo -e '\n'
> prompt:
>
> testsaslauthd -u $USERNAME -p $PASSWD
> 0: OK "Success."
>
> Does anyone here know what is going on or how to fix it?

are you using SELinux in enforced mode? If yes check your SELinux  
audit log (/var/log/audit/audit.log)


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