Postfix + Sasl2 problem on Mandriva 2009 (64bit)

[feablee]

Hi, I followed tutorial Perfect server on Mandriva 2009 (x86_64) - point Postfix + Sasl2. I've installed and configured both but when I try send mail with authentiction Im getting in logs:



[...]
... kernel: saslauthd segfault at ..... error 4 in libc-2.8.so ...
warning: SASL authentication failure: size read failed
[...]


Have You seen it before?

[falko]

Not sure what it is. Have you tried to reinstall saslauthd?

[feablee]

Yes,I tried many times to urpme it and install from another repository. Unfortunatelly lib64-sasl is part of system-base and cant remove it easly and install some other version.
Do you know how authenticate smtp with dovecot on Mandriva 2009 - is it possible? I dont mean pop3 authentication.


regards,

[falko]

SMTP authentication is possible with Dovecot, but I haven't tried it yet.

[Eagle]

Hello,
I followed perfect setup tutorial step by step and I have same problem as feablee.
Mandriva 2009 x86_64, postfix, sasl.

postfix/smtpd[15361]: warning: SASL authentication failure: size read failed
postfix/smtpd[15361]: warning: SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed
postfix/smtpd[15361]: warning: unknown[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: generic failure
postfix/smtpd[15361]: warning: SASL authentication failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: Connection refused
postfix/smtpd[15361]: warning: unknown[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: generic failure

Authentication method is pam, but kerberos5 or shadow also don't work.

[falko]

What's in /etc/sasl2/smtpd.conf and /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd?

Can you make the Postfix user a member of the saslauth group and restart Postfix and saslauthd?

[muchal]

Hi !

I have followed The Perfect Server - Mandriva 2009.0 Free (x86_64) (http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-mandriva-2009.0-x86_64) and in the step 11 Postfix With SMTP-AUTH And TLS; Dovecot when I telnet localhost 25 connection is dropped instantly by the postfix server and the mail error.log says something like: "no SASL authentication mechanism"

I'm stuck any ideas ?

[falko]

What's in /etc/sasl2/smtpd.conf and /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd?

[muchal]

What's in /etc/sasl2/smtpd.conf and /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd?

I 'fixed' it, somehow I have installed wrong RPMs .
Started over and now I got STARTTLS and AUTH PLAIN ....

Now I will try to install ispconfig 3

Thanks and sorry for confusion !

[muchal]

Here is the story with pam authentication saslauthd will only authenticate once and the it will die with saslauthd[3383]: server_exit : master exited: 3383

With shadow it will fail with segfault at fffffffff9bf82a0 ip 00007f2cf8ce0a80 sp 00007fff020d59d8 error 4 in libc-2.8.so[7f2cf8c64000+158000]

the workaround that worked for me was:
edit /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd
SASL_AUTHMECH=pam
SASLAUTHD_OPTS='-V -c'
where:
-c - cache credentials
-V is a verbose logging, so you may skip it and try just SASLAUTHD_OPTS='-c'
let me know if it worked for you guys!
thanks!

ps. when saslauthd dies it wont cleanup the communication socket, to clean it run: service saslauthd stop and then service saslauthd start
and verify with: ls -l /var/lib/sasl2/ /var/spool/postfix/var/lib/sasl2/