RE: Looking for Gerry Doris--SMTP AUTH Questions

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On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:

> At 16:04 12/29/2003, you wrote:
> >I've tried manual authentication via a telnet to port 25 on my box, and here
> >is the result:
> >
> >auth LOGIN
> >334 VXNlcm5hbWU6
> >Dflasfjdlksadjf;lkk
> >334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6
> >;dalsfjds;kjadsE=
> >535 5.7.0 authentication failed
> >
> >I also get that same message in the messages log:
> >Dec 29 14:00:34 fresca sendmail[27405]: unknown password verifier
> >
> >What do you think?  Do you think this may be some other file that needs a
> >configuring somewhere or is perhaps something like pam or sasl broken?
> 
> You must have missed a message from me some time ago, scolding you for not 
> making friends with Google. I spent some time in that big search engine in 
> the sky, and came up with several references that indicate very strongly 
> that "unknown password verifier" is a SASL problem. Try to ensure that your 
> Sendmail is using only unencrypted AUTH, and try to make sure that SASL is 
> using PAM for authentication (should be the default).
> 
> If all else fails, I suggest you try the Microsoft route: "rpm -e" anything 
> related to sendmail and sasl, then reinstall it with the latest versions 
> and follow instructions to the letter. Won't teach you what went wrong but 
> will likely fix the problem.

Also, I mentioned it before but you should check that you're using the
correct saslbd file.  The version of sendmail used in RH 9 was happy with
sasldb but I had to create an sasldb2 file (notice the "2") to make the
version of sendmail used in fedora stop complaining.  Check your maillog
to see if there are any references to /etc/sasldb2 not being found.  It's
a completely different encoding.

-- 
Gerry

"The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne"  Chaucer


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