Re: Postfix auth problems on one system, not the other

[H. Wade Minter]

On 5 Nov 2002, Simon J Mudd wrote:

 In your case it may also be useful to enable debugging in smtpd by
 modifying master.cf and adding a -v line, and then restarting postfix
 with postfix reload.

Turns out the problem was that postfix didn't have access to the
/var/pwcheck directory.  Putting postfix in the cyrus group solved the
problem.

This URL proved to be the key:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=enlr=ie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8selm=20021101204024.A69576%40volt.iem.pw.edu.pl

Thanks for the help!


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Re: Postfix auth problems on one system, not the other

[Simon J Mudd]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (H. Wade Minter) writes:

 This is a tale of two postfix installs.
 
 Install one was on a clean 4.7 system, and works like a charm.  Using
 pwcheck_pam, everything's peachy.
 
 On the other system, also a 4.7 install, currently running sendmail, I'm
 attempting to migrate to postfix.  Everything seems to be working fine,
 except I cannot get SMTP AUTH to work properly.
 
 I've got pwcheck_pam running, just like on System 1.
 /usr/local/lib/sasl/smtpd.conf contains:
 pwcheck_method: pwcheck
 
 just like on System 1.
 
 However, when I connect to System 2, and do an AUTH PLAIN
 (base64-encoded-string), it hangs for 5 seconds or so and spits back
 Authentication failed, whereas on System 1, it immediately returns with
 authentication accepted.
 
 One clue - when I truss pwcheck_pam on System 1, it shows lots of
 activity.  When I truss it on System 2, there's no activity at all.
 
 So it looks like System 2 isn't even contacting the pwcheck daemon to try
 to auth the password.
 
 I'm at my wit's end, so hopefully someone will be able to point me toward
 something to try to get this working.  Any help will be appreciated.
 
 Package info, System 1:
 cyrus-sasl-1.5.27_7
 postfix-1.1.11,1
 
 Package info, System 2:
 cyrus-sasl-1.5.27_7
 postfix-1.1.11,1

With any postfix question always provide the following:
1. output of postconf -n (non default configurations)
2. output of /var/log/maillog

In your case it may also be useful to enable debugging in smtpd by
modifying master.cf and adding a -v line, and then restarting postfix
with postfix reload.

Hope this helps track down the problem.

Simon
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