> 'Allo, > > I'm having some troubles doing smtp authentication using PAM through cyrus-sasl. > > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to host.domain. > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 host.domain ESMTP Postfix > EHLO host > 250-host.domain > 250-PIPELINING > 250-SIZE 10240000 > 250-ETRN > 250-AUTH PLAIN > 250 8BITMIME > AUTH PLAIN <base64 string> > 535 Error: authentication failed > > > Here's the relevant information in from the syslog: > > Mar 8 10:39:37 josephs1 PAM_unix[31999]: authentication failure; (uid=502) -> josephs for smtp service > Mar 8 10:39:37 josephs1 PAM-warn[31999]: service: smtp [on terminal: <unknown>] > Mar 8 10:39:37 josephs1 PAM-warn[31999]: user: (uid=502) -> josephs [remote: ?nobody@?nowhere] > > I'm encoding the username/password as indicated by the cyrus-sasl README: > printf 'username\0username\0password' | mmencode > , nor does authentication work with various mail clients. > > Is it easy to get some additional debugging information from PAM, such as what it's receiving, or is there another > problem? Hmmm.. I had the same knightmare from within Sendmail. I forgot to create the SASL services file. (/usr/lib/sasl/Sendmail) > > I'm running the most recent stable postfix (20010228), cyrus-sasl (1.5.24), and PAM (0.72-37). > > Thanks! > > joseph sheedy > josephs@oeone.com > www.oeone.com Igmar
