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and subject line courier-authdaemon: Postfix - SASL authentication failure
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regarding courier-authdaemon: Postfix - SASL authentication failure
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: courier-authdaemon
Version: 0.63.0-6+b1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
with updating system from Debian 6.0.8 to 7.2 the Postfix
authentication don't work. courier-authdaemon authenticate
the system's users that are used to send email from external
on SMTP connections.
The postfix logs reporting:
postfix/smtpd[]: warning: SASL authentication failure: cannot connect to
Courier authdaemond: Connection refused
postfix/smtpd[]: warning: X[Y.Z.J.K]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: generic
failure
The solution is:
rm -r /var/run/courier/authdaemon
ln -s /var/spool/postfix/var/run/courier/authdaemon /var/run/courier
because postfix, in the standard installation, is in a chroot environment.
I propose a solution that make the job automagically.
Modify the courier-authdaemon start up script in the following manner:
~# diff -c /etc/init.d/courier-authdaemon /etc/init.d/courier-authdaemon_orig
*** /etc/init.d/courier-authdaemon 2013-11-18 18:48:58.868867113 +0100
--- /etc/init.d/courier-authdaemon_orig 2012-06-09 18:45:14.000000000 +0200
***************
*** 35,50 ****
# set file context for SELinux (#668564)
[ -x /sbin/restorecon ] && /sbin/restorecon $rundir_courier
fi
- #== Postfix chroot ==#
- if _PFIX=/etc/postfix/master.cf && [ -s $_PFIX ] &&
- [ "$(/usr/bin/awk '$1~/^smtp$/ && $8~/smtpd/ {print $5}
- ' $_PFIX)" != "n" ] &&
- _PFIX=/etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf &&
- [ ! -L $rundir ]
- then
- /bin/ln -s /var/spool/postfix/$rundir $rundir_courier
- fi
- #-- Postfix chroot --#
if [ ! -d "$rundir" ]; then
mkdir -m 0750 $rundir
chown daemon:daemon $rundir
--- 35,40 ----
Thank you, Guido.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500,
'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages courier-authdaemon depends on:
ii courier-authlib 0.63.0-6+b1
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian8+deb7u1
courier-authdaemon recommends no packages.
courier-authdaemon suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/courier/authdaemonrc [Errno 13] Permesso negato:
u'/etc/courier/authdaemonrc'
/etc/init.d/courier-authdaemon changed:
prefix="/usr"
exec_prefix=${prefix}
sysconfdir="/etc/courier"
sbindir="${exec_prefix}/sbin"
daemonscript="${sbindir}/authdaemond"
rundir_courier="/var/run/courier"
rundir="/var/run/courier/authdaemon"
pidfile="${rundir}/pid"
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
if [ ! -x $daemonscript ]; then
exit 0
fi
case "$1" in
start)
# Start daemon.
cd /
log_daemon_msg "Starting Courier authentication services" "authdaemond"
if [ ! -d "$rundir_courier" ]; then
mkdir -m 0775 $rundir_courier
chown daemon:daemon $rundir_courier
# set file context for SELinux (#668564)
[ -x /sbin/restorecon ] && /sbin/restorecon $rundir_courier
fi
if _PFIX=/etc/postfix/master.cf && [ -s $_PFIX ] &&
[ "$(/usr/bin/awk '$1~/^smtp$/ && $8~/smtpd/ {print $5}
' $_PFIX)" != "n" ] &&
_PFIX=/etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf &&
[ ! -L $rundir ]
then
/bin/ln -s /var/spool/postfix/$rundir $rundir_courier
fi
if [ ! -d "$rundir" ]; then
mkdir -m 0750 $rundir
chown daemon:daemon $rundir
# set file context for SELinux (#668564)
[ -x /sbin/restorecon ] && /sbin/restorecon $rundir
fi
$daemonscript start
log_end_msg 0
;;
stop)
# Stop daemon.
cd /
log_daemon_msg "Stopping Courier authentication services" "authdaemond"
$daemonscript stop
log_end_msg 0
;;
restart|force-reload)
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
status)
status_of_proc -p "$pidfile" "" "authdaemond" && exit 0 || exit $?
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|force-reload|status}" >&2
exit 2
;;
esac
exit 0
-- no debconf information
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As there was no response to my previous email, I am going to close this bug
report. I assume the problem has already been fixed sometime during the
intervening years. If anyone is still having this issue they should feel free
to reopen this bug report.
--
Soren Stoutner
[email protected]
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