Sendmail AUTH using ldap changed ?

[Neil Marjoram]

Paul,

Thanks, that's got it, I changed the value to ldap, just to note you 
also need to add a config file /etc/saslauthd.conf with details of the 
ldap server. I still get this error :
sendmail[10613]: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: No such file 
or directory
sendmail[10613]: no secret in database

But since I haven't set this up I suppose it's to be expected.

Thanks,

Neil.


Paul Howarth wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>

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