Re: Sendmail/SASL2/saslauthdb problem

Nibbed in here without reading the rest of the thread as I just finished
debugging some dovecot SASL. On FreeBSD mmencode can't be used, even with
printf for 'auth plain' because it can't handle the null (\0) characters
required. At least I couldn't figure out how to do it. My solution was to use
perl with MIME::Base64 installed as in:

perl -MMIME::Base64 -e 'print
encode_base64("user\@domain.tld\0user\@domain.tld\0password");'

mmencode -u can be used to test the encoding as there are no nulls:

perl -MMIME::Base64 -e 'print
encode_base64("user\@domain.tld\0user\@domain.tld\0password");'
| mmencode -u


On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 05:13:17 -0400, Rob Szarka wrote
*ahem*

I would like to point out the following obvious (in retrospect)
advice about testing smtp auth by hand:

when using mmencode to translate to base64, one should

printf "username" | mmencode

not

echo "username" | mmencode

Of course, it wasn't working from my usual MUA either, originally;
but after I fixed my problem, I didn't know it was fixed because I
was testing with a bad username and password.

*sigh*

After a complete deinstall/reinstall/reconfigure didn't work, I
caught on...

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