Sendmail AUTH using ldap changed ?

[Neil Marjoram]

I have two mail systems almost identical, accept one is FC2 the other 
FC3. The FC3 is a fresh install to update the FC2 system, so I have 
copied across all the config files to the new system. I use SMTP AUTH 
for login of remote users, but alas in FC3 this does not work. I use my 
LDAP server to supply login details, but it seems that cyrus-sasl no 
longer seems to use this method, but insists it uses the salsdb2 database.

I have found the documentation for this which suggests altering the 
Sednmail.conf file in /var/lib/sasl2 to pwcheck_method: PAM, but all I 
get in the log file is this error :
 sendmail[10334]: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: No such file 
or directory
 sendmail[10334]: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: No such file 
or directory
 sendmail[10334]: no secret in database
 sendmail[10334]: unknown password verifier
 sendmail[10334]: Password verification failed
 sendmail[10334]: unknown password verifier

If I set this back to standard pwcheck_method:saslauthd, it gives this 
error :

 sendmail[10613]: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: No such file 
or directory
 sendmail[10613]: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: No such file 
or directory
 sendmail[10613]: no secret in database
 sendmail[10613]: cannot connect to saslauthd server: No such file or 
directory
 sendmail[10613]: Password verification failed
 sendmail[10613]: cannot connect to saslauthd server: No such file or 
directory

The old FC2 system has the pwcheck_method set in this way and works fine.

Can anyone help me with this ?

Thanks,

Neil.


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Neil Marjoram
Systems Manager
Adastral Park Campus
University College London
Ross Building
Adastral Park
Martlesham Heath
Ipswich - Suffolk
IP5 3RE