Hi, Thanks for the reply. First of I will say that everything to reproduce this is a default configuration for saslauthd. You simply have to install it. The next part would be to install any of the other default like imapd(no configuration required) or sendmail(which does need configured). Or any other client that is capable of using saslauthd
Mayby this isn't understood well or I have come across badly. The problem here in ubuntu is that the saslauthd version in ubuntu doesn't support passing the rhost (the remote ip address) from its front end service to the pam authentication lib's at all. This make logging, blocking of remote ip addresses which are constantly trying usernames / passwords on mail servers via smtp, pop3, imap impossible to monitor, log and block as pam.d authfailure will fail to log any actionable information. Here is more information on the same bug from redhat. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=683797 The 2nd issue isn't so much of a feature request as it is actually the same functionality. You cannot have a pam module installed/configured in the system which can lookup say a dns blacklist or database of blocked ip addresses and block access though stand pam configuration that saslauthd uses by default. This makes all pam authentication configuration / logging based on the back of saslauthd that involves an ip address useless / redundant / non functional. This isn't a new problem with saslauthd its just never been fixed.. It dates back to 2011. Across multiple systems and use this package. https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/cyrus-sasl/2011-March/002218.html ** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #683797 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=683797 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1657897 Title: Failure to report rhosts To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cyrus-sasl2/+bug/1657897/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
