Re: sendmail sasl configuration

From: Sean Ellis (sellis_at_telus.net)
Date: 08/24/03

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To: "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzelsw@westbend.net>

    Hello Scot,

    Saturday, August 23, 2003, 8:42:37 PM, you wrote:

    >> I get relaying now:
    >>
    >> Aug 23 16:09:29 XXX sm-mta[54776]: AUTH=server,
    > relay=boi4263cy38nf.bc.hsia.telus.net [216.232.133.79],
    >> authid=testuser, mech=LOGIN, bits=0
    >>
    >> which I imagine indicates a plain text exchange. I still get the error
    > below.
    >>
    >> error: safesasl(/usr/local/etc/sasldb.db) failed: Permission denied

    > Add theses flags to your sendmail startup script:

    > -O LogLevel=14 -d44.4

    > This will create additional output on each file and directories that
    > sendmail tries to access. Check the permissions for the /usr, /usr/local/,
    > /usr/local/etc/ directories. Making sure that sendmail has read access to
    > these directories.

    that's excellent ! voila !

    Trying 127.0.0.1...
    Connected to localhost.xxxhomes.com.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    220 xxx.xxxhomes.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.2/8.12.2; Sat, 23 Aug 2003 21:55:50 -0700 (PDT)
    ehlo localhost
    250-xxx.xxxhomes.com Hello localhost.xxxhomes.com [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you
    250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
    250-PIPELINING
    250-EXPN
    250-VERB
    250-8BITMIME
    250-SIZE
    250-DSN
    250-ETRN
    250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN
    250-DELIVERBY
    250 HELP

    Somehow I'd nuked the ownership and permissions on /usr/local/etc.
    Straightening it out cleared up the problem.

    > You should switch to the saslauthd, as the pwcheck daemon has been removed
    > the Cyrus-SASL V2.

     You figure? I have no man entry for saslauthd. It was the cyrus-sasl
     that I installed rather the cyrus-sasl2.

     --
    Thanks again,
     Sean mailto:sellis@telus.net

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