Subject: Re: SASL2+POSTFIX PAM authentication failure
: k1680792 wrote: : : >Hi all, : > I am going to use SASL pam method to complete Postfix's authentication. : > I compiled Cyrus-sasl-2.1.10 with the following options. : >--disable-sample : >--disable-saslauthd : >--disable-cram : >--disable-digest : >--disable-krb4 : >--disable-gssapi : >--disable-anon : >--enable-plain : >--enable-login : >--enable-pwcheck : >--disable-otp : >--with-pam : > I created the file smtpd.conf under /usr/lib/sasl.(the link of : >/usr/local/lib/sasl2) : >pwcheck_method:pam : > I also created the smtp under /etc/pam.d : >#%PAM-1.0 : >auth required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth : >account required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth : > I compiled Cyrus-sasl-1.5.28 and postfix-1.1.12 with the about : >configuration and it works well,but it fails in Cyrsu-sasl-2.1.10 + : >Postfix-2.0.2.Would anyone give me some hints? : > And the maillog is : >SASL authentication problem:unknown password verifier : >postfix/smtpd[15914]: warning: SASL authentication failure: : >Password verification failed : > : > : If you want to use PAM, you need to use saslauthd and run it with : saslauthd -a pam. I don't use postfix, but for IMAP you specify : sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd in /etc/imapd.conf, so perhaps you need : pwcheck_method: saslauthd. : : -- : John A. Tamplin : Unix Systems Administrator For postfix to work, you need to make the sasldb file in /etc by adding a user with saslpasswd. It should be sufficient. bryntez
