Hi,
I'm running a Centos 5.1 server that uses saslauthd to allow sendmail
SMTP relaying for some clients. saslauthd is configured to use method
shadow to lookup the username / password directly from /etc/shadow.
This setup has been working for several month now, but is broken since
last Monday. I
Bernd Bartmann wrote:
/var/log/maillog:
AUTH failure (LOGIN): authentication failure (-13) SASL(-13):
authentication failure: checkpass failed
/var/log/messages:
saslauthd[3665]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=username]
[service=smtp] [realm=] [mech=shadow] [reason=Unknown]
Does someone
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Ian Blackwell wrote:
Bernd Bartmann wrote:
/var/log/maillog:
AUTH failure (LOGIN): authentication failure (-13) SASL(-13):
authentication failure: checkpass failed
/var/log/messages:
saslauthd[3665]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=username]
Bernd Bartmann wrote:
Thanks Ian. That's indeed the reason. service saslauthd status gives
saslauthd dead but subsys locked. Now, what could be the reason why
saslauthd was not running any more?
cu,
Bernd.
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On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Ian Blackwell wrote:
Bernd Bartmann wrote:
Thanks Ian. That's indeed the reason. service saslauthd status gives
saslauthd dead but subsys locked. Now, what could be the reason why
saslauthd was not running any more?
Hard to say without seeing the logs. Does
Bernd Bartmann wrote:
It did start without any problems. Looks like I found the cause. From
the logs I see that someone tried a brute force attach on the SMTP
relay with several username / password combinations. Then one of the
attempts lead to a segfault of saslauth. Which probably means that
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