On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 22:41:17 +1000 (EST) Voytek Eymont <li...@sbt.net.au> articulated:
> ahem, I inadvertently (but successfully) > deleted /etc/pam.d/smtp.postfix, > > and, I'm trying to recreate it: > > I'm getting 'generic failure' as below > > how can I troubleshoot what am I missing ? > > pam.d]# cat smtp.postfix > auth required pam_mysql.so user=postfix passwd=xxx host=127.0.0.1 > db=postfix table=mailbox usercolumn=username passwdcolumn=password > crypt=1 md5=1 > > account sufficient pam_mysql.so user=postfix passwd=xxx > host=127.0.0.1 db=postfix table=mailbox usercolumn=username > passwdcolumn=password crypt=1 md5=1 > > > > ---------------------------------- > | Tables_in_postfix | > | admin | > | alias | > | config | > | domain | > | domain_admins | > | fetchmail | > | log | > | mailbox | > > -------------------------------------------- > Apr 6 22:28:50 postfix/smtpd[24015]: TLS connection established from > CPE-124-184-253-224.lns14.cht.bigpond.net.au[124.184.253.224]: SSLv3 > with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits) > Apr 6 22:28:50 postfix/smtpd[24015]: warning: SASL authentication > failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: Connection refused > Apr 6 22:28:50 postfix/smtpd[24015]: warning: SASL authentication > failure: Password verification failed > Apr 6 22:28:50 postfix/smtpd[24015]: warning: > CPE-124-184-253-224.lns14.cht.bigpond.net.au[124.184.253.224]: SASL > PLAIN authentication failed: generic failure > Apr 6 22:28:50 postfix/smtpd[24015]: warning: SASL authentication > failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: Connection refused > Apr 6 22:28:50 postfix/smtpd[24015]: warning: SASL authentication > failure: Password verification failed > Apr 6 22:28:50 postfix/smtpd[24015]: warning: > CPE-124-184-253-224.lns14.cht.bigpond.net.au[124.184.253.224]: SASL > PLAIN authentication failed: generic failure > Apr 6 22:28:50 postfix/smtpd[24015]: lost connection after AUTH from > CPE-124-184-253-224.lns14.cht.bigpond.net.au[124.184.253.224] > Apr 6 22:28:50 postfix/smtpd[24015]: disconnect from > CPE-124-184-253-224.lns14.cht.bigpond.net.au[124.184.253.224] You might want to visit this URL: http://www.postfix.com/DEBUG_README.html Pay particular attention to this notation: Output from "postconf -n". Please do not send your main.cf file, or 500+ lines of postconf output. Better, provide output from the postfinger tool. This can be found at http://ftp.wl0.org/SOURCES/postfinger. If the problem is SASL related, consider including the output from the saslfinger tool. This can be found at http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/saslfinger/. -- Jerry ✌ postfix-u...@seibercom.net _____________________________________________________________________ TO REPORT A PROBLEM see http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail TO (UN)SUBSCRIBE see http://www.postfix.org/lists.html