SMTP AUTH failing

[Steven Stern]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 07:04:01 +0100, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org>
wrote:

>Am Mo, den 14.02.2005 schrieb Steven Stern um 6:51:
>
>> I know what the error is -- "no secret" in the file /etc/sasldb2
>> 
>> I just don' t know how to fix it.  There are hundreds of hits on Google, but
>> no solutions... people just seem to give up.
>
>>   Steve 
>
>No, certainly they don't give up.
>
>The original log message was:
>
>Feb 13 19:38:23 ciscy sendmail[28257]: j1E1cJo7028257: AUTH failure
>(CRAM-MD5): user not found (-20) SASL(-13): user not found: no secret in
>database
>
>So add a user to the sasldb2 using saslpasswd2 and be sure you use the
>correct realm to authenticate then! If you do not pass a realm with the
>saslpasswd2 command, then your hostname is used as realm. Your login
>name is then
>
>user at hostname
>
>If you leave away the realm, then of course the user will not be found.
>
It's still getting hung up on the "secret", whatever that might be.

[root at ciscy ~]# saslpasswd2 -f /etc/sasldb2 -u sterndata.com testuser1
Password: 
Again (for verification): 
[root at ciscy ~]# sasldblistusers2 /etc/sasldb2
testuser1 at sterndata.com: userPassword

For the password, I entered the real password for testuser1.

AT this point, I fired up Thunderbird and attempted to send mail using the
testuser1 account. It failed, after entering the "real" password for
testuser1.

>From /var/log/maillog:

Feb 14 06:55:57 ciscy sendmail[16434]: STARTTLS=server,
relay=h-66-167-178-157.chcgilgm.dynamic.covad.net [66.167.178.157],
version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=NO, cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA, bits=256/256

>From /var/log/messages:
Feb 14 06:56:04 ciscy sendmail[16434]: no secret in database

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


-- 
  Steve