Hello.
I'm running Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) Server Edition as a mail server
with Postifix 2.3.8 and i'm trying to setup SASL in Postifx for smtp
authentication (authenticate system users, using pam mechanism in
sasl).
After a while i could find some decent howtos about configuring sasl.
I followed this two (ommiting the initial setup of postfix becuase i
have that running already):
http://www.jimmy.co.at/weblog/?p=52
https://help.ubuntu.com/7.04/server/C/postfix.html
I think i have correctly configured the saslauth deamon, at least
that's what testsaslauthd says:
testsaslauthd -u pruebarelay -p 1234 -f
/var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd/mux
0: OK "Success."
The problem comes when i try to test AUTH PLAIN through telnet (using
the base64 encode of the username and password showed above). This is
what i get:
$telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mail.mydomain.com ESMTP Postfix (Ubuntu)
EHLO localhost
250-mail.mydomain.com
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 10240000
250-VRFY
250-ETRN
250-STARTTLS
250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-8BITMIME
250 DSN
AUTH PLAIN AHBydWViYXJlbGF5CjM0
535 5.7.0 Error: authentication failed: bad protocol / cancel
This is what postfix's log file says:
Sep 11 10:00:03 mailserver postfix/smtpd[4008]: connect from
localhost[127.0.0.1]
Sep 11 10:00:26 mailserver postfix/smtpd[4008]: warning: SASL
authentication failure: Can only find author/en (no password)
Sep 11 10:00:26 mailserver postfix/smtpd[4008]: warning:
localhost[127.0.0.1]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: bad protocol /
cancel
This is the output of postconf -n
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
always_bcc = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
append_dot_mydomain = no
biff = no
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
config_directory = /etc/postfix
content_filter = amavis:[127.0.0.1]:10024
home_mailbox = Maildir/
inet_interfaces = all
mailbox_size_limit = 0
mydestination = mydomain.com, mailserver, localhost.localdomain, localhost
myhostname = mail.mydomain.com
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8, 192.168.1.0/24
myorigin = /etc/mailname
receive_override_options = no_address_mappings
recipient_bcc_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/recipient_bcc
recipient_delimiter = +
relayhost =
sender_bcc_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sender_bcc
smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes
smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_directory}/smtp_scache
smtp_use_tls = yes
smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Ubuntu)
smtpd_recipient_restrictions =
permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject_unauth_destination
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_sasl_local_domain =
smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtpd_tls_auth_only = no
smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1
smtpd_tls_received_header = yes
smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_directory}/smtpd_scache
smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s
smtpd_use_tls = yes
tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom
I spent the whole day tearing my hair off on this issue but i can't
seem to find any solution.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Diego.
