Virtual Users And Domains HowTo saslauthd problem

[laser144]

Hi,

Being relatively new to Linux (Debian Sarge), I followed Falko Timme's 'How To Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier

And MySQL (+ SMTP-AUTH, Quota, SpamAssassin, ClamAV)' to the letter.

Unfortunately my saslauthd won't start. I subsequently tried apt-get update and apt-get upgrade, which resulted in this message:


invoke-rc.d: initscript saslauthd, action "start" failed

Any help or hints on how to get this daemon working or how to configure saslauth are most welcome!

Regards,

Andy

[till]

Did you copy and paste the saslauthd script to your server with an SSH client like putty on windows? Its really easy to make a mistake if you type it.

[Hans]

Hello there, i had the same problem with my Debian system.
This worked for me, maybe it is also helpful to you:

Edit /etc/default/saslauthd:

START=yes
MECHANISMS=''pam''

saslauthd is not started after package installation (we’ll do it later)!
Next file to edit is /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf:

pwcheck_method: saslauthd

Add the next few lines in /etc/postfix/main.cf to enable SASL:

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

postfix does a chroot so it can’t communicate with saslauthd. This is the tricky part:

rm -r /var/run/saslauthd/
mkdir -p /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd
ln -s /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd /var/run
chgrp sasl /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd
adduser postfix sasl

Now restart postfix and start saslauthd

/etc/init.d/postfix restart
/etc/init.d/saslauthd start


Hans

[laser144]

Works like a charm: thanks Hans!

@Till: I did use Putty as my typing skills are deplorable...

Grt,

Andy

[nenad]

@Hans

Edit /etc/default/saslauthd:

START=yes
MECHANISMS=''pam''

And what about:

PARAMS="-m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd -r"

Did you deleted that line ?
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Next file to edit is /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf:

pwcheck_method: saslauthd

What about:

mech_list: plain login

Did you deleted that line?

[nenad]

This works until reboot.

After reboot /var/run/saslauthd/ is created again

/etc/init.d/saslauthd start

failed again

[falko]

Not if you modify the saslauthd init script appropriately...

[chrno]

Originally Posted by falko

Not if you modify the saslauthd init script appropriately...

sorry ... where's the isaslauthd's init script located? Will it be in /etc/init.d/ ?

Thanks!

[falko]

Sorry, you don't have to modify the saslauthd init script, but you must configure saslauthd exactly as outlined in section 5 here: http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual_po...ota_courier_p2

[nenad]

Originally Posted by falko

Sorry, you don't have to modify the saslauthd init script, but you must configure saslauthd exactly as outlined in section 5 here: http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual_po...ota_courier_p2

Great! Is that final & all-in-one & all-that-you-need solutions for saslauthd problems described all over this forums?

I hope so, my firefox is full of bookmarks pointing to various solutions and "solutions" to this annoying problem.

Please confirm.