On November 14, 2008 02:45:56 pm Brian Evans - Postfix List wrote: > James Grant wrote: > > Hi all, I've exhausted myself trying to figure this one out... im > > using courier-authlib and its setup and working properly, imap/pop > > works fine, authtest from the commandline works fine. > > > > for some reason, my smtp auth wont use it, it says it cant even find > > it.. > > > > #cat /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf > > This is often a path that is incorrect, but different systems can be set > to use it.
It is definitely using this file. I made sure of it... i used to have it set to use auxprop with sql auth > > pwcheck_method: authdaemond > > authdaemond_path: /var/run/courier/authdaemon/socket > > mech_list: plain login > > > > # ls -al /var/run/courier/authdaemon/socket > > srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2008-11-14 13:52 > > /var/run/courier/authdaemon/socket > > > > # ls -al /var/run/courier/authdaemon > > total 4 > > drwxr-xr-x 2 daemon daemon 100 2008-11-14 13:52 . > > drwxr-xr-x 4 daemon daemon 240 2008-11-13 01:07 .. > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6 2008-11-14 13:52 pid > > -rw------- 1 root root 0 2008-11-13 01:07 pid.lock > > srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2008-11-14 13:52 socket > > > > But yet, when trying to authenticate, i get this in my mail.log > > > > Nov 14 14:29:19 mx1 postfix/smtpd[17982]: warning: SASL authentication > > failure: cannot connect to Courier authdaemond: No such file or > > directory > > Is the smtp service chroot'ed? Doing so is a real exorcise in getting it > to work. gah that was exactly it! a chroot wont follow symlinks out of the chroot will it? I disabled the chroot in master.cf and it works fine. I think for now im just going to run smtpd without the chroot.. man.. what a hassle... Thank you thank you thank you :) James > Grab saslfinger from > http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/saslfinger/ and then run > 'saslfinger -s'. > Check result and then report back if you need more assistance. > > Brian -- James Grant Lightbox Technologies 312-240 Catherine St. Ottawa, ON. K2P 2G8 http://www.lightbox.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 613-686-1661 x101
