Perfect Setup - Fedora Core 3 - saslauthd problem

[Median]

Hi.

I read in one of Falko's posts somewhere that the Perfect Setup Fedora Core 3 is basically the same for Fedora Core 2. I have followed that and have got so far, but now I have encountered my first error.

Now start Postfix, saslauthd, imap and pop3:

chkconfig --levels 235 sendmail off
chkconfig --levels 235 postfix on
chkconfig --levels 235 saslauthd on

works fine.
We then come to

chkconfig imap on

and I get an error,

error reading information on service imap: No such file or directory

which is fine as Dovecot was installed instead of imap, so I change this to

chkconfig Dovecot on

and it seems to be ok.

chkconfig imaps on
chkconfig ipop3 on
chkconfig pop3s on

all produce the same error.

>>>>> Should I replace these lines with anything or just leave them out?

/etc/init.d/sendmail stop
/etc/init.d/postfix start
/etc/init.d/saslauthd start
/etc/init.d/xinetd restart

All seem to work ok apart from

/etc/init.d/saslauthd start

which throws an error saying

could not read from startup_pipe

If I just type

saslauthd start

at the prompt I get an error telling me

no authentication method specified

and list of options which seems to suggest that saslauthd is there somewhere ready to go but I'm just not giving it the right information. I tried

saslauthd -a pam

which throws up the message:

saslauthd[22578] :detach_tty      : Cannot start saslauthd
saslauthd[22578] :detach_tty      : could not read from startup_pipe

Obviously I'm missing something here. Would be grateful if someone could help me out.

Thanks in advance

[falko]

Originally Posted by Median

>>>>> Should I replace these lines with anything or just leave them out?

Leave them out.

Originally Posted by Median

All seem to work ok apart from which throws an error saying

could not read from startup_pipe

If I just type

saslauthd start

at the prompt I get an error telling me

no authentication method specified

and list of options which seems to suggest that saslauthd is there somewhere ready to go but I'm just not giving it the right information. I tried

saslauthd -a pam

which throws up the message:

saslauthd[22578] :detach_tty      : Cannot start saslauthd
saslauthd[22578] :detach_tty      : could not read from startup_pipe

Obviously I'm missing something here. Would be grateful if someone could help me out.

Thanks in advance

Did you do all the steps from http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_se...dora_core_3_p4 ?

What's in /usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf?
What's the output of

telnet localhost 25

(this telnet thing is also described on http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_se...dora_core_3_p4)?

[Median]

Originally Posted by falko

Did you do all the steps from http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_se...dora_core_3_p4 ?

>>>>> Yes, to the letter

Originally Posted by falko

What's in /usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf?

>>>>>

pwcheck_method: saslauthd
mech_list: plain login

Originally Posted by falko

What's the output of

telnet localhost 25

(this telnet thing is also described on http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_se...dora_core_3_p4)?

[root@median root]# telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 median.x.example.com ESMTP Postfix
ehlo localhost
250-median.x.example.com
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 10240000
250-VRFY
250-ETRN
250-STARTTLS
250 8BITMIME

[falko]

Looks ok. What's in /etc/postfix/main.cf?

[Median]

Originally Posted by falko

Looks ok. What's in /etc/postfix/main.cf?

Do you want the whole file? Its quite large.

[falko]

Leave out the lines beginning with #.

[Median]

queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix
command_directory = /usr/sbin
daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix

mail_owner = postfix

inet_interfaces = all
#inet_interfaces = $myhostname
#inet_interfaces = $myhostname, localhost
#proxy_interfaces =
#proxy_interfaces = 1.2.3.4
#mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost
#mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost, $mydomain
#mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost, $mydomain,
#	mail.$mydomain, www.$mydomain, ftp.$mydomain

#local_recipient_maps = unix:passwd.byname $alias_maps
#local_recipient_maps = proxy:unix:passwd.byname $alias_maps
#local_recipient_maps =
unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550

#mynetworks_style = class
#mynetworks_style = subnet
#mynetworks_style = host

#mynetworks = 168.100.189.0/28, 127.0.0.0/8
#mynetworks = $config_directory/mynetworks
#mynetworks = hash:/etc/postfix/network_table

#relay_domains = $mydestination

#relayhost = $mydomain
#relayhost = [gateway.my.domain]
#relayhost = [mailserver.isp.tld]
#relayhost = uucphost
#relayhost = [an.ip.add.ress]

#relay_recipient_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/relay_recipients

# INPUT RATE CONTROL
#in_flow_delay = 1s

#alias_maps = dbm:/etc/aliases
#alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
#alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, nis:mail.aliases
#alias_maps = netinfo:/aliases

#alias_database = dbm:/etc/aliases
#alias_database = dbm:/etc/mail/aliases
#alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
#alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/opt/majordomo/aliases

#recipient_delimiter = +

#home_mailbox = Mailbox
#home_mailbox = Maildir/

#mail_spool_directory = /var/mail
#mail_spool_directory = /var/spool/mail

#mailbox_command = /some/where/procmail
#mailbox_command = /some/where/procmail -a "$EXTENSION"

#mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:/file/name
#mailbox_transport = cyrus

#fallback_transport = lmtp:unix:/file/name
#fallback_transport = cyrus
#fallback_transport =

#luser_relay = $user@other.host
#luser_relay = $local@other.host
#luser_relay = admin+$local

#header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/header_checks

#fast_flush_domains = $relay_domains

#smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name
#smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name ($mail_version)

#local_destination_concurrency_limit = 2
#default_destination_concurrency_limit = 20

debug_peer_level = 2

#debug_peer_list = 127.0.0.1
#debug_peer_list = some.domain

debugger_command =
	 PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
	 xxgdb $daemon_directory/$process_name $process_id & sleep 5

sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix

newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases.postfix

mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq.postfix

setgid_group = postdrop

html_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.2.3-documentation/html

manpage_directory = /usr/share/man

sample_directory = /etc/postfix

readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.2.3-documentation/readme
alias_database = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases
alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases
smtpd_sasl_local_domain = 
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject_unauth_destination
inet_interfaces = all
smtpd_tls_auth_only = no
smtp_use_tls = yes
smtpd_use_tls = yes
smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.key
smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.crt
smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/ssl/cacert.pem
smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1
smtpd_tls_received_header = yes
smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s
tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom
smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes

[falko]

Looks ok so far. Please restart Postfix and try this

telnet localhost 25

thing again.

[Median]

Originally Posted by falko

Looks ok so far. Please restart Postfix and try this

telnet localhost 25

thing again.

[root@median root]# postfix stop
postfix/postfix-script: stopping the Postfix mail system
[root@median root]# postfix start
postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system
[root@median root]# telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 median.x.example.com ESMTP Postfix
ehlo localhost
250-median.x.example.com 
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 10240000
250-VRFY
250-ETRN
250-STARTTLS
250 8BITMIME

[falko]

Please run

updatedb
locate smtpd.conf

and post the output.