Sendmail AUTH using ldap changed ?

[Paul Howarth]

Neil Marjoram wrote:
> 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 ?

I don't know if this'll work but try:

/usr/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf:
pwcheck_method:saslauthd

/etc/sysconfig/saslauthd
MECH=pam
or
MECH=ldap

and restart saslauthd:
# chkconfig saslauthd on
# service saslauthd start

This is based on guesswork since I don't use ldap at all myself.

Paul.