Vincent Danen grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> On Wed Mar 06, 2002 at 01:57:06PM -0800, David Guntner wrote:
> >
> > Yea, the daemon is running. It wasn't the first time I started it up, but
> > then I noticed the daemon. Started it up and then tried to connect again.
> > No help there; still got the error. Maybe you can run this past the local
> > SASL guru there? :-)
>
> I've forwarded it to two folks I think might be able to help. If I
> hear anything back from them, I'll forward it to the list.
Thanks, it's appreciated.
> > I just wish I knew why the blasted thing keeps aborting when I try to turn
> > it on. I only seem to get that error when the smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
> > line is uncommented. I can have the other sasl lines uncommented, and it
> > doesn't even seem to notice them. But without the enable line, nothing
> > happens. And for some reason, whatever it's trying to start keeps bombing
> > off.
>
> Well, postfix probably ignores all of the sasl config commands if it's
> not enabled. I suspect if you had smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = no it
> would likewise work without errors. There's something with SASL
> itself, or a misconfiguration on the SASL components.
You made me curious, so I tried it. Setting smtpd_sasl_auth_enable to "no"
apparently doesn't try to load the components, because I could telnet in
from a remote site just fine and it didn't die. As expected, a ehlo did
not show auth login as a command in response. :-)
> One last thing. Can you tell me what the permissions of
> /var/lib/sasl/sasl.db are? If they aren't mode 644, can you chmod it
> and restart saslauthd and postfix and see if that helps?
$ ls -la /var/lib/sasl
total 22
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 152 Mar 5 03:23 ./
drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 696 Mar 1 00:11 ../
srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 5 03:23 mux=
-rw------- 1 root root 6 Mar 5 03:23 mux.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Feb 26 16:19 sasl.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 Mar 1 10:20 smtpd.conf
$ cat /var/lib/sasl/smtpd.conf
pwcheck_method: pam
$
(I figured you might want to know what's in the smtpd.conf file. :)
> > Well, thanks for trying; I do appreciate it. If you happen to think of
> > anything else, please feel free to pass it on to me. :-)
>
> Check the permissions... that's about all I can think of right now...
Thanks again.
--Dave
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