[Fedora] Re: Sendmail + SASL2

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> I have pam set up to use LDAP rather than NIS but the sendmail config
> should be the same:
>
> /usr/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf:
> pwcheck_method:saslauthd
>
> In /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd make sure you have "MECH=pam"
>
> Make sure you have the cyrus-sasl-plain package installed.
>
> Make sure saslauthd is running.
>
> The relevant snippets from sendmail.mc:
> define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS',`LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
> TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
    Thanks Paul.  That didn't work.  I see the following errors in my 
system logs:

==> /var/log/messages <==
Jun 23 07:40:36 desp saslauthd[29394]: do_auth         : auth failure: 
[user=kirash] [service=smtp] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error]
Jun 23 07:40:36 desp sm-mta[29488]: Password verification failed
Jun 23 07:40:36 desp saslauthd[29395]: do_auth         : auth failure: 
[user=kirash] [service=smtp] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error]

==> /var/log/maillog <==
Jun 23 07:40:36 desp sm-mta[29488]: k5NDeQsw029488: AUTH failure 
(PLAIN): authentication failure (-13) SASL(-13): authentication failure: 
Password verification failed
Jun 23 07:40:36 desp sm-mta[29488]: k5NDeQsw029488: AUTH failure 
(LOGIN): authentication failure (-13) SASL(-13): authentication failure: 
checkpass failed

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