Hi i had a smiliar problem, trying to authenticate with postfix over saslauthd and pam to my ldap server. Since new libsasl2 (repectively libsasl2-2) no more success.
My system is a clean and uptodate etch running on debian etch vserver. Surprisingly i could successful authenticate with "testsaslauthd". Hm, authentication via postfix never reached the salsauthd (i could see this with saslauthd in debug mode). Finally i found a hint in /usr/share/doc/libsasl2-2/README.configure-options : libsasl2 is compiled with '--with-configdir=/etc/sasl:/usr/lib/sasl2' Ok, i tried the following: mkdir /etc/sasl cp /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf /etc/sasl /etc/init.d/postfix restart eh voila, authentication works again :) rm -rf /etc/postfix/sasl /etc/init.d/postfix restart It still works :)) So who is the bad boy/girl now? ;) The maintainers of sasl or the postfix folks? Or the programmers? I had and have a lot of trouble with sasl and cyrus the last weeks. Another example: In imapd.conf is an example line like this: #tls_lmtp_cert_file: /etc/ssl/certs/cyrus-lmtp.pem But "tls_lmtp_cert_file" is no longer correct. Correct ist "lmtp_tls_cert_file". Just a little bit word scrabbling but its annoying. And i remember a similiar problem with auxprop sasl options in imapd.conf. These small syntax changes from one day to another can cost days of debugging. And you find no hints on this. Documentation and examples use the wrong syntax (its not really wrong, just for some (or newest) versions. OK, i'll stop whinging. Make it better. And feel free to ask me if you have unresolvable bugs in the future. I play a lot with debians sasl/postfix/cyrus stuff but have not always the time or the nerves to search for bugreports. regards, matthias @arno: please give me short feedback if this also works for you -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]