I'm trying to configure sendmail to authenticate against the system
password file for SMTP using the FreeBSD ports collection and having
a heck of a time with it. saslauthd works great when tested with
testsaslauthd (testsaslauthd -s smtp -u XXXXX -p XXXXX returns
Success), but when testing by hand with the same account through
sendmail (with the same bare username, no realm), I get the following error:
saslauthd[38367]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=XXXXXXX]
[service=smtp] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error]
From the other side, I see sendmail offering "250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN"
(what I want) in the ESTMP session and doing the auth login
prompting, but then returning "535 5.7.0 authentication failed" in
response to the base64-ed username and password.
Can anyone shed light on this? Here's my configuration:
FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #1
Sendmail 8.13.6/8.13.6 (installed via mail/sendmail-sasl compiled
against an earlier install of security/cyrus-sasl2 -- I can see it
passing the "-DSASL=2" during make)
/usr/local/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf has "pwcheck_method: saslauthd"
and, I'm assuming from the error message, sendmail is actually calling it.
