On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 08:09:26PM -0400, Marc Lindahl wrote:
> Doesn't the authdaemond check against each module in order (i.e. from top 
> down in the list in webadmin)?  Because, I tried changing the order - 
> putting authpam at the top and it still gives the same message in the log.

Authpam definitely will not handle CRAM-MD5.

> I'm using only system accounts, nothing virtual.  And, as I said, the other 
> services are validating - why would smtp differ? 

Because you are requesting CRAM-MD5 authentication via SMTP, and a regular
userid/password authentication via other means.  As I already said, CRAM-MD5
requires cleartext passwords, which not every authentication module implements.


> 
> Sam Varshavchik writes: 
> 
> > On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 03:40:29AM -0400, Marc Lindahl wrote:
> >> The only appearance in the log is:  
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Apr 19 03:30:37 dell courieresmtpd: started,ip=[::ffff:216.254.71.21]
> >> Apr 19 03:30:37 dell courieresmtpd: 
> >> error,relay=::ffff:216.254.71.21,msg="535 Authentication failed.",cmd: AUTH 
> >> CRAM-MD5  
> >> 
> >> And the order of auth modules is authcram, authuserdb, authpam, authcustom - 
> >> the user is a system user, everything's pretty standard... 
> > 
> > CRAM-MD5 authentication requires a specific password validation configuration.
> > The passwords must be stored in the clear, not encrypted.  See INSTALL.  More
> > than likely your password scheme does not use cleartext password, and
> > therefore you cannot use CRAM-MD5. 
> > 
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