I have the mailserver and the directory on the same server. I have installed OpenLDAP client & libs and cyrus sasl. Fedora DS ldapsearch is not on the path. The Fedora DS now stores userPasswords as plaintext. saslauthd run with: MECH=ldap, FLAGS=-c saslauthd.conf: ldap_servers: ldap://127.0.0.1 ldap_search_base: ou=People,dc=fashioncontent,dc=com ldap_bind_dn: cn=Directory Manager,dc=fashioncontent,dc=com ldap_bind_pw: secret ldap_filter: (&(objectClass=inetorgperson)(uid=%u)) ldap_use_sasl: no ldap_auth_method: bind ldap_version: 3 ldap_debug: 3 ldap_verbose: on log_level: 255 OpenLDAP ldapsearch: Shows userPassword results hashed, but otherwise shows the users I look up OpenLDAP ldapsearch userPassword=secret: Success Fedora ldapsearch: Fails to find anything testsaslauthd -u devel -p secret: Fails to find anything, error code 32 I think I haven't figured out how to make saslauthd report the ldap queries, so I know very little of what happens and the Fedora logs don't appear to help much more. Henrik