SMTP auth problem

[Joey Prestia]

Mike Bydalek wrote:
> 
> 
> Craig White wrote:
>> On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 20:30 -0700, Joey Prestia wrote:
>>   
>>> Craig White wrote:
>>>     
>>>> On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 20:03 -0700, Joey Prestia wrote:
>>>>       
>>>>> Craig White wrote:
>>>>>         
>>>>>> Is saslauthd running?
>>>>>> /sbin/service saslauthd status
>>>>>> or better yet...
>>>>>> /sbin/service saslauthd restart
>>>>>> then look at the bottom of /var/log/messages and /var/log/maillog to
>>>>>> make sure there isn't any errors.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Are all the users stored in /etc/passwd or mysql or ldap?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Craig
>>>>>>           
>>>>> Craig,
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes all accounts are stored in /etc/passwd
>>>>> saslauthd is running and performed a restart
>>>>>
>>>>> maillog:
>>>>>
>>>>>   Jul  4 20:04:40 linuxamd saslauthd[27068]: server_exit     : master 
>>>>> exited: 27068
>>>>> Jul  4 20:04:40 linuxamd saslauthd[30273]: detach_tty      : master pid 
>>>>> is: 30273
>>>>> Jul  4 20:04:40 linuxamd saslauthd[30273]: ipc_init        : listening 
>>>>> on socket: /var/run/saslauthd/mux
>>>>>
>>>>> So restarting caused no errors I just tried to send this via a another 
>>>>> wireless network with no success
>>>>>         
>>>> ----
>>>> are you sure that you have enabled secure authentication on your client
>>>> program?
>>>>
>>>> can you try another mail program? You could try to authenticate via
>>>> command line but that's infinitely trickier to do with ssl.
>>>>
>>>>       
>>> I have tried with both kmail and thunderbird. My usual settings are tls
>>> if available and and smtp auth with username and password I thought at
>>> first that this was the problem it was using the old password so I
>>> removed the default smtp server settings and removed the passwords. So
>>> it would force me to manually enter the password again I did this while
>>> on another network and tried to send with no success. As soon as I
>>> disconnected from the neighboring lan and connected to the local lan it
>>> took and sent but I am unsure if it is using auth it seems like it is
>>> only sending because its on my lan how would I verify the authentication
>>> process is working at all?
>>>     
>> ----
>> I don't use smtp auth but I would expect smtp auth connections to be
>> logged in /var/log/maillog and possibly in /var/log/secure
>>   
> 
> Try running saslauthd in debug mode with something like this:
>  /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam -r -d  (stop the service first though ...)
> 
> Look at the way saslauthd is running now to get the proper -a and to see 
> if -r is there.
> 
> Then, run testsaslauthd -u <login> -p <password> to see what the debug 
> says.  Additionally, try the smtp auth from the client to see what the 
> debug says.
> 
> In the past, all the saslauthd issues I'd had became quite clear when 
> running with -d.

Do I need to set up saslpasswd2 with a user and password in the database
first I have nothing in there? I assume so, so I have created an entry.
I tried your method and cant seem to get it to authenticate for any
thing I continually get 0: NO "authentication failed" Is there any thing
I am missing here?

-- 
Joey Prestia