Subject: Re: postfix and sasl2
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Peter I. Hansen <pih@xbase.dk>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/07/2005 13:50:01
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:20:13AM +0200, Peter I. Hansen wrote:
> Hello
> 
> This might be off topic, but here goes.
> 
> I'm using postfix and cyrus-sasl for authentication of users on
> my NetBSD 2.0 system, on both port 25 and port 26.
> Both postfix and cyrus-sasl are fresh form pkgsrc.
> 
> Since I went from sasl(1) to sasl2, the authentication on port 26
> gets refused. The log goes like this: (sorry about the wrapping)
> 
> Apr  6 22:32:25 dhcppc1 postfix/smtpd[25335]: warning: SASL
> authentication failure: Could not open db
> Apr  6 22:32:25 dhcppc1 postfix/smtpd[25335]: warning: SASL
> authentication failure: Could not open db
> Apr  6 22:32:25 dhcppc1 postfix/smtpd[25335]: warning: SASL
> authentication failure: no secret in database
> Apr  6 22:32:25 dhcppc1 postfix/smtpd[25335]: warning:
> unknown[192.168.1.37]: SASL CRAM-MD5 authentication failed
> Apr  6 22:32:26 dhcppc1 postfix/smtpd[25335]: lost connection
> after AUTH from unknown[192.168.1.37]
> Apr  6 22:32:26 dhcppc1 postfix/smtpd[25335]: disconnect from
> unknown[192.168.1.37]
> 
> When I use port 25 everything is fine. The problem is that many
> ISPs is blocking port 25 these days...
> 
> I'm considering importing the old cyrus-sasl(1) to pkgsrc-wip,
> since this worked for me, but I'd like to be able to use the more
> recent version.
> 
> Well, any help on this will be highly appreciated.
> 
> thanks, Peter

Problem solved. Others than root needs to have reading rights for
this to work... 

Sorry about the noise.

-Peter