Re: saslauthd & PAM??

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John,

It was worth a shot but I just checked, my version of saslauthd was not
compiled to use sasldb as an authentication method:

# /usr/sbin/saslauthd -v
saslauthd 2.1.23
authentication mechanisms: getpwent kerberos5 pam rimap shadow ldap

Thanks,
Jeff

> Jeff,
>
> Perhaps try sasldblistusers2 to check your user database?
>
> - John Wright
> Starfire Research
>
> On 11/25/2011 4:28 PM, jeff@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> I'm running a Fedora 16 system, recently upgraded from Fedora 15 and I
>> am
>> unable to get saslauthd to authenticate users.
>>
>> What I have been able to figure out so far is that the parameters are
>> being passed to saslautd (eg testsaslauthd -u username -p password -s
>> smtp) but saslauthd appears to simply sit on the request, running a
>> strace
>> -f -p xxxx on the saslauthd process I can see my username and password
>> sitting there but that's it, its just sitting there.
>>
>> output from strace:
>> fcntl(6, F_SETLKW, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0,
>> len=1}{sa_family=AF_FILE, NULL}, [2]) = 7
>> fcntl(6, F_SETLKW, {type=F_UNLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=1}) = 0
>> ) = 0
>> accept(5, read(7, "\0\4", 2)                      = 2
>> read(7, "username", 4)                  = 4
>> read(7, "\0\6", 2)                      = 2
>> read(7, "passwd", 6)                    = 6
>> read(7, "\0\4", 2)                      = 2
>> read(7, "smtp", 4)                      = 4
>> read(7, "\0\0", 2)                      = 2
>> read(7,
>>
>> I think this means that testsaslauthd is passing the query to saslauthd
>> correctlybut saslauthd for whatever reason isn't contacting PAM
>> properly.
>>
>> sysconfig/saslauthd:
>>
>> SOCKETDIR=/var/run/saslauthd
>> MECH=pam
>> FLAGS=
>>
>> /etc/pam.d/smtp:
>>
>> #%PAM-1.0
>> auth		include		password-auth
>> account		include		password-auth
>>
>>
>> selinux is disabled
>>
>> I'm probably missing something pretty simple but not sure where to look,
>> suggestions would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks, Jeff
>>
>>
>>
>




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