Re: Problem authenticating postfix users with cyrus saslsaslauthd: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: No such fileor directory

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Problem authenticating postfix users with cyrus...
\ Denis Maggiorotto (23 Jul 2007)
. \ Patrick Ben Koetter (23 Jul 2007)

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Subject:	Re: Problem authenticating postfix users with cyrus saslsaslauthd: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: No such fileor directory
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	Patrick Ben Koetter
Date:	23 Jul 2007

* Denis Maggiorotto <maggiorotto>:
> Hi all,
> I'm trying to configure postfix in order to accept only authenticated

Accept or accept for relaying?

> user with cyrus-sasl. In my scenario users must be authenticated against
> /etc/shadow using saslauthd.
> The saslauthd daemon is properly configured to use shadow mechanism and
> serve only plain or login anthentication methods but unfortunately an
> error pops out in the log file:
>
> connect from unknown[192.168.1.65]
> Jul 23 18:09:27 skmail2 postfix/smtpd[28635]: warning: SASL
> authentication problem: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: No such
> file or directory
> Jul 23 18:09:27 skmail2 postfix/smtpd[28635]: warning: SASL
> authentication problem: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: No such
> file or directory
> Jul 23 18:09:27 skmail2 postfix/smtpd[28635]: warning:
> unknown[192.168.1.65]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: authentication
> failure
> Jul 23 18:09:27 skmail2 postfix/smtpd[28635]: lost connection after AUTH
> from unknown[192.168.1.65]
> Jul 23 18:09:27 skmail2 postfix/smtpd[28635]: disconnect from
> unknown[192.168.1.65]

Download saslfinger and send "saslfinger -s" output.

saslfinger (debugging SMTP AUTH):
<http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/saslfinger/>

p@rick

>
> The authentication fails and users are not authorized to send emails.
> It seams that cyrus is trying to authenticate users against his db file
> and not against the system's /etc/shadow as i expect.
>
> Do you have any clue about this error? Have you ever faced it?
> Any idea about the solution?
>
> This is my software version and configuration:
>
> Host:
> SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 (x86_64)
> Linux skmail2 2.6.16.46-0.12-default #1 Thu May 17 14:00:09 UTC
> 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> Software:
> postfix v. 2.3.7
> cyrus-sasl-saslauthd 2.1.21-18.4
>
> Configuration:
> /usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf
> pwcheck_method: saslauthd
> mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN
>
> /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd
> SASLAUTHD_AUTHMECH=shadow
>
>
> /etc/postfix/main.cf
> smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
> broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
> smtpd_sasl_local_domain = $myhostname
> smtpd_sender_restrictions =
> permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject
> smtpd_recipient_restrictions =
> permit_mynetworks,permit_sasl_authenticated,reject_unauth_destination
> smtpd_sasl_type = cyrus
> smtpd_sasl_path = smtpd
>
>
> Best regards,
> Denis Maggiorotto

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