I am having a heck of a time getting Sendmail 8.13.1 to authenticate
using Cyrus saslauthd 2.1.13. I need help isolating my problem to
either saslauthd or Sendmail.
Saslauthd has worked fine with Cyrus imapd for years. If I test it
using testsaslauthd, it authenticates fine with a service name of smtp
or imap.
Sendmail, however, refuses to provide the AUTH command and complains
Jul 12 14:11:49 polycarp sendmail[1322]: AUTH warning: no mechanisms
I have followed several sets of instructions for configuring Sendmail
for saslauthd and none have worked.
I am invoking saslauthd with the -a shadow option.
Is there a way to determine which mechanisms are available? I did this:
[root@polycarp eje]# /usr/local/sbin/saslauthd -v
saslauthd 2.1.13
authentication mechanisms: getpwent pam rimap shadow
How come the "mechanisms" cited by the -v option don't match up with the
mech_list in the configuration file (below), but rather match the
"methods"? Which type of mechanism is Sendmail complaining about?
/usr/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf says:
#pwcheck_method: saslauthd
pwcheck_method: shadow
mech_list: PLAIN CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5
I tried running saslauthd in debug mode but it printed out nothing when
I invoked Sendmail.
sendmail.mc contains:
define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS',`LOGIN PLAIN DIGEST-MD5')
define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS',`y,p,a')
TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`LOGIN DIGEST-MD5 PLAIN')
...
LOCAL_CONFIG
ESASL_PATH=/usr/lib/sasl2
Thanks!
Eric Ewanco
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