What mechanism (-a flag) is saslauthd started with? Seems to me that SASL wants to go GSSAPI (Kerberos) though that is not what you expect... Just my 2 cents, Guus On Thu, May 31, 2007 12:20, Amarendra Godbole wrote: > Hi, > > > I use postfix as an smtp client to deliver email to our enterprise > smtp server. Since the smtp server needs authentication, I used cyrus sasl with > postfix and things worked fine. After a portupgrade, postfix has stopped > working, and gives some wierd authentication error. Googling did not help > much, and hence I am posting here. Relevant details follow: > > ----------8<----------------- > Postfix version: postfix-2.4.1,1 > Cyrus SASL version: cyrus-sasl-2.1.22 > > > Postfix built with: (contents of makedefs.out) > SYSTYPE = FREEBSD6 > AR = ar > ARFL = rv > RANLIB = ranlib > SYSLIBS = -L/usr/local/lib -lpcre -L/usr/local/lib -lsasl2 -lpam -lcrypt > CC = cc -DHAS_PCRE -I/usr/local/include -DUSE_SASL_AUTH -DUSE_CYRUS_SASL > -I > /usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/sasl > OPT = -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe > DEBUG = > AWK = awk > STRCASE = > EXPORT = AUXLIBS='-L/usr/local/lib -lpcre -L/usr/local/lib -lsasl2 -lpam > -lcryp > t' CCARGS='-DHAS_PCRE -I/usr/local/include -DUSE_SASL_AUTH -DUSE_CYRUS_SASL > -I/u > sr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/sasl' OPT='-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing > -pipe > ' DEBUG='' > WARN = -Wall -Wno-comment -Wformat -Wimplicit -Wmissing-prototypes \ > -Wparentheses -Wstrict-prototypes -Wswitch -Wuninitialized \ > -Wunused > > > main.cf has the following entries: # cyrus sasl stuff > smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtp_sasl_password_maps = > hash:/usr/local/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd > smtp_security_options = > > sasl_passwd.db exists created with postmap hash: command > > Error in the maillog shows: > May 31 14:35:12 zimbu postfix/smtp[49765]: warning: SASL > authentication failure: GSSAPI Error: Miscellaneous failure (see text) > (open(/tmp/krb5cc_125): No such file or directory) > May 31 14:35:12 zimbu postfix/smtp[49765]: 1E722B895: > to=<xyz@xxxxxxx>, relay=smtp.foo.com[xx.xx.xx.xx]:25, delay=1.4, > delays=0.02/0.01/1.4/0, dsn=4.7.0, status=deferred (SASL authentication > failed; cannot authenticate to server smtp.foo.com[xx.xx.xx.xx]: generic > failure) > > I don't quiet understand the first message of "no such file or directory". > > > I used exactly the same configuration earlier, and postfix was happily > working for the last year or so. Any pointers to fix this issue will be > appreciated. Thanks in advance! > > -Amarendra > > >
