Re: Postfix-SASL-GSSAPI question

2009-11-02 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 04:06:53PM +0330, Ali Majdzadeh wrote:

 Thanks a lot for your help. I managed to solve the problem. By the way, have
 you got any experiences about using kerberos as a pam module?

Processes running as root can use kerberos as a PAM module, by obtaining
and validating a service ticket for the host/hostname@REALM service
in the system keytab.

So if you want to have Postfix offer PLAIN, utilizing a KDC as a password
oracle, you need a root co-process to validate passwords, which is what
saslauthd -a pam is for.

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Re: Postfix-SASL-GSSAPI question

2009-11-01 Thread Ali Majdzadeh
Viktor,
Hello
Thanks a lot for your help. I managed to solve the problem. By the way, have
you got any experiences about using kerberos as a pam module?

Kind Regards
Ali Majdzadeh Kohbanani

2009/10/30 Ali Majdzadeh ali.majdza...@gmail.com

 Viktor,
 Hi
 Thanks for your guidance. Would please keep an eye on this thread? I am
 going to test the configuration using a properly configured GSSAPI client.
 Possibly, there will be much more questions to ask ;)
 Thank you so much.


 Kind Regards
 Ali Majdzadeh Kohbanani

 2009/10/29 Victor Duchovni victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com

 On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 07:11:54PM +0330, Ali Majdzadeh wrote:


  Thanks for your mail. Among your experiences with Postfix, GSSAPI and
  probably SASL, have you ever tested your configuration using telnet? If
 it
  is so, would you please describe the procedure? According to your
 previous
  mail, I figured out that since I use telnet to test the configuration, I
  should know about the exact handshake process.

 The GSSAPI handshake is too complex for hand-tests with telnet.  Use a
 real GSSAPI client, e.g. a suitably configured Postfix client.

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Re: Postfix-SASL-GSSAPI question

2009-10-30 Thread Ali Majdzadeh
 Viktor,
Hi
Thanks for your guidance. Would please keep an eye on this thread? I am
going to test the configuration using a properly configured GSSAPI client.
Possibly, there will be much more questions to ask ;)
Thank you so much.

Kind Regards
Ali Majdzadeh Kohbanani

2009/10/29 Victor Duchovni victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com

 On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 07:11:54PM +0330, Ali Majdzadeh wrote:

  Thanks for your mail. Among your experiences with Postfix, GSSAPI and
  probably SASL, have you ever tested your configuration using telnet? If
 it
  is so, would you please describe the procedure? According to your
 previous
  mail, I figured out that since I use telnet to test the configuration, I
  should know about the exact handshake process.

 The GSSAPI handshake is too complex for hand-tests with telnet.  Use a
 real GSSAPI client, e.g. a suitably configured Postfix client.

 --
 Viktor.

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Re: Postfix-SASL-GSSAPI question

2009-10-29 Thread Ali Majdzadeh
Viktor,
Hello
Thanks for your mail. Do you test the configuration using mail clients like
Thunderbird or something like that? If not, what do you actually use in
order to test the configuration?

Kind Regards
Ali Majdzadeh Kohbanani

2009/10/28 Victor Duchovni victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com

 On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 05:11:33PM +0330, Ali Majdzadeh wrote:

  ehlo example.com
  auth gssapi base 64 encoded userid

 The GSSAPI handshake does not work this way.

  When I monitor the logs, I see the following failure messages:
  warning: SASL authentication failure: GSSAPI Error: Invalid token was
  supplied (No error)
  What does the above line mean? Where do I go wrong in the process?

 A base64 encoded username is not a valid GSSAPI token. Test with an
 actual GSSAPI client. FWIW, Postfix works just fine with GSSAPI here.

 As in your configuration, the server uses a keytab and KRB5_KTNAME is
 set in the server environment (import_environment=...). The server
 keytab belongs to the postfix ($mail_owner) user.

 In our case the client (sending) system also has a keytab, but it is not
 used directly, rather a cron job runs periodically, and uses kinit -t
 to refresh the client credential cache. The client main.cf also has
 import_environment=... with a setting for KRB5_CCNAME.

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Re: Postfix-SASL-GSSAPI question

2009-10-29 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 02:26:54PM +0330, Ali Majdzadeh wrote:

 Thanks for your mail. Do you test the configuration using mail clients like
 Thunderbird or something like that? If not, what do you actually use in
 order to test the configuration?

I have successfully performed GSSAPI authenticated SMTP submission to
Postfix with Thunderbird, Mail.app (MacOSX native email client), mutt
and a GSSAPI-capable Postfix client. All work.

Not much testing these days, it all just works.

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Re: Postfix-SASL-GSSAPI question

2009-10-29 Thread Ali Majdzadeh
Viktor,
Hi
Thanks for your mail. Among your experiences with Postfix, GSSAPI and
probably SASL, have you ever tested your configuration using telnet? If it
is so, would you please describe the procedure? According to your previous
mail, I figured out that since I use telnet to test the configuration, I
should know about the exact handshake process.
Thanks again.

Kind Regards
Ali Majdzadeh Kohbanani

2009/10/29 Victor Duchovni victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com

 On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 02:26:54PM +0330, Ali Majdzadeh wrote:

  Thanks for your mail. Do you test the configuration using mail clients
 like
  Thunderbird or something like that? If not, what do you actually use in
  order to test the configuration?

 I have successfully performed GSSAPI authenticated SMTP submission to
 Postfix with Thunderbird, Mail.app (MacOSX native email client), mutt
 and a GSSAPI-capable Postfix client. All work.

 Not much testing these days, it all just works.

 --
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Re: Postfix-SASL-GSSAPI question

2009-10-29 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 07:11:54PM +0330, Ali Majdzadeh wrote:

 Thanks for your mail. Among your experiences with Postfix, GSSAPI and
 probably SASL, have you ever tested your configuration using telnet? If it
 is so, would you please describe the procedure? According to your previous
 mail, I figured out that since I use telnet to test the configuration, I
 should know about the exact handshake process.

The GSSAPI handshake is too complex for hand-tests with telnet.  Use a
real GSSAPI client, e.g. a suitably configured Postfix client.

-- 
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Postfix-SASL-GSSAPI question

2009-10-28 Thread Ali Majdzadeh
Hello All
I have installed cyrus-SASL libraries to do GSSAPI-based authentication when
interacting with Postfix. I have also installed and tested Kerberos. I can
successfully test GSSAPI authentication using samples provided by SASL
(sample-server and sample-client). I have created a service principal for
Postfix as smtp/client2.domain@domain.net http://domain.net/ and I
have put the corresponding keytab file in /etc/krb5.keytab. Also, I have set
the KRB5_KTNAME environment variable to point to the keytab file. Using
kadmin.local and ktadd -k, I import smtp's keytab and I can verify it by
issuing klist -k. Under /etc/postfix/sasl, I have created smtp.conf with the
following contents:
keytab: /etc/smtp.keytab
mech_list: gssapi
Before testing Postfix, I use kinit to authenticate the user who wants to
authenticate to Postfix. Then, I use telnet to test GSSAPI authentication:
# telnet client2.domain.net 25
...
ehlo example.com
auth gssapi base 64 encoded userid
When I monitor the logs, I see the following failure messages:
warning: SASL authentication failure: GSSAPI Error: Invalid token was
supplied (No error)
What does the above line mean? Where do I go wrong in the process?

Kind Regards
Ali Majdzadeh Kohbanani


Re: Postfix-SASL-GSSAPI question

2009-10-28 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 05:11:33PM +0330, Ali Majdzadeh wrote:

 ehlo example.com
 auth gssapi base 64 encoded userid

The GSSAPI handshake does not work this way.

 When I monitor the logs, I see the following failure messages:
 warning: SASL authentication failure: GSSAPI Error: Invalid token was
 supplied (No error)
 What does the above line mean? Where do I go wrong in the process?

A base64 encoded username is not a valid GSSAPI token. Test with an
actual GSSAPI client. FWIW, Postfix works just fine with GSSAPI here.

As in your configuration, the server uses a keytab and KRB5_KTNAME is
set in the server environment (import_environment=...). The server
keytab belongs to the postfix ($mail_owner) user.

In our case the client (sending) system also has a keytab, but it is not
used directly, rather a cron job runs periodically, and uses kinit -t
to refresh the client credential cache. The client main.cf also has
import_environment=... with a setting for KRB5_CCNAME.

-- 
Viktor.

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