Questions tagged [saslauthd]
saslauthd is a daemon process that handles plaintext authentication requests on behalf of the SASL library.
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POSTFIX fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms
I am struggling with the error above for more than 5 hours.
I had tried to remove Postfix completely and I had followed the instructions of the next manual and the SASL manual in order to reinstall it....
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How to get SASL authentication to work with DIGEST-MD5 for OpenLDAP?
I'm setting up OpenLDAP slapd on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr. I want certain instances (replication etc.) that aren't users to be able to login via SASL using DIGEST-MD5 mechanism.
Unlike users, they ...
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Postfix on CentOS 7 cannot authenticate against cyrus saslauthd
Postfix fails to authenticate against cyrus saslauthd. However, saslauthd itself is willing to authenticate. What am I missing?
From syslog mail facility:
Aug 5 14:47:26 centos7-msa-test postfix/...
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Postfix + sasl method rimap strips domain name from user
I'm setting up a mail server with Postfix and Courier-IMAP. I'd like to do SMTP authentication with rimap, so that I don't have to maintain two user DB's. The problem I'm having, is that the username ...
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saslauthd authentication error
My server has developed an expected problem where I am unable to connect from a mail client.
I've looked at the server logs and the only thing that looks to identify a problem are events like the ...
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Saslauth with ldapdb on debian
I'm trying to get saslauthd working with openldap.
ldapsearch and every service connected to openldap works fine. sasldblistusers2 doesn't work - and ldapwhoami does not work either.
getent passwd ...
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Postfix: SASL authentication failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: Permission denied
I had a Postfix/Dovecot server up and running for about a week until I had to reboot it. When I did, things stopped working. I've been up searching for hours to no avail.
IMAP successfully ...
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"503 5.5.1 Error: authentication not enabled" when trying to connect to my postfix server remotley
I have the following:
postfix-2.10.1-6.el7.x86_64
cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.26-17.el7.x86_64
cyrus-sasl-plain-2.1.26-17.el7.x86_64
cyrus-sasl-2.1.26-17.el7.x86_64
my postconf -n is:
alias_database = ...
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saslauthd using too much memory
Woke up today to see my site slow/unresponsive. Pulled up top and it looks like a ton of saslauthd processes have spun up using about 64m of RAM each, causing the machine to enter swap space. I've ...
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How can I configure my postfix server so reject_sender_login_mismatch doesn't block aliases of the main account?
I've recently setup postfix, dovecot, amavis and a suite of other tools using iRedMail, and I'm having difficultly authenticating to my outgoing mail server.
The issue is this:
[email protected] is ...
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How to debug SASL authentication via LDAP towards active directory
I am trying to configure SASL running on Centos 6.5 to allow authentication towards the corporate active directory server. The end goal is to authenticate access to some subversion repos which are ...
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Low Entropy on Container
I am thinking my entropy level may be low?
$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
I am around 132-178 on average. Pool size is default 4096 (this is a container on a virtualizer by the way).
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SvnServe On Windows With Active Directory Authentication
Right now my company is using a network share to communicate with the SVN repository. It's really slow so I'd like to switch to SVNSERVE.
The main reason my company chose to go the filesystem route ...
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Where can I find tuning resources for postfix, saslauthd and courier [closed]
I just deployed postfix, saslauthd, courier to a starter VPS box running Ubuntu 8.04 with with 512MB of memory. Most of the memory is now being eaten up by these processes.
I do plan to upgrade to a ...
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Log username in maillogs when there is SASL authentication failure
I have a server with postfix and cyrus-sasl. When ever there is an authentication failure it reports in maillog below line.
postfix/smtpd[27669]: warning: unknown[185.xxx.xxx.xxx]: SASL LOGIN ...
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SMTP authentication failure + PAM-MySQL cannot authenticate
I am building a mail server using Postfix, and set up the authentication to check against a database set-up using Postfixadmin.
I can authenticate via Courier IMAP okay, as it can authenticate ...
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svnserve+sasl+ldap : saslauthd not contacted?
I am trying to authenticate subversion users against sasl+ldap. Other questions about this problem seem to be related to earlier versions of subversion, or sasldb authentication.
lsb_release -a
No ...
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saslauthd multi instance for postfix smtp authentication
I have mail server Postfix+Saslauth.
I configure multiple instance for Postfix:
postfix
postfix-out
and two instances for saslauth:
saslauthd
saslauthd-out
Setting saslauthd is for ...
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Postfix, saslauthd, mysql, smtp authentication problems
Trying to get authentication on my mail server (ubuntu 10.04) running but am having trouble. I have a server with postfix for smtp setup, imap server with courier setup. My postfix authentication is ...
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Apache 2.4 replacement for mod_auth_shadow?
My employer has been running RHEL 6.x and Apache httpd 2.2 for many years. We are currently in the process of migrating to new hardware running RHEL 7.1 and Apache httpd 2.4. Our current web site has ...
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Getting SENDMAIL (as a client) to use AUTH LOGIN
I am trying to use SENDMAIL (v8.15) on a Pi in my network to just forward mails to my SendGrid account. This is needed because my legacy webcams on my network cannot use the very long password ...
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saslauthd on centos no authentication
I want instal on centos 6.4 postfix with auth-smtp, i instal sasl
ps -ef | grep pam
root 3148 1 0 15:29 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -m /var/run/saslauthd -a pam
root 3150 ...
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configure saslauthd with PAM
I'm trying to configure saslauthd with PAM. I created a user test with password test using useradd and passwd and I checked that I can login with su - test.
[arch@vps-5220ce87 ~]$ systemctl status ...
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SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed (postfix + cyrus + saslauthd)
We're having difficulties authenticating over smtp, running postfix + cyrus on centos 7.
When I try to telnet to port 25 (or 587) locally and auth plain, I get the following errors in the mail log:
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testsaslauthd - permission denied
Running: Ubuntu 12.10 32bits server version.
I'm trying to connect to the saslauthd and getting the error I mentioned on the title (permission denied).
$ /usr/sbin/testsaslauthd -u myuser -p ...
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Can I use DenyHosts for a SMTP service
I would like to block some hosts that are brute forcing my SMTP server.
I'm currently using DenyHosts for SSHD and was wondering if I can add the SMTP service too.
It could be possible based on this ...
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Can't find the IP address of a Saslauthd login attempt
I need help locating the origin IP from this error messages/ login attempts:
From the 'sasl auth daemon' via Logwatch:
pam_unix(smtp:auth): check pass; user unknown
pam_unix(smtp:auth): ...
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apt-get purge removing seemingly unrelated packages
I somehow managed to remove the /var/run/saslauthd directory while installing authentication for Postfix, so I was trying to apt-get purge and then reinstall the various saslauthd packages in order to ...
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SMTP authentification: saslauthd won't start
I've set up a mailserver, which is working fine, but now I wanted to add SMTP authentification using SASL. However, trying to start saslauthd (my system is Ubuntu 16.04) doesn't work, but I don't get ...
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Postfix smtpd won't talk to saslauthd
I have an saslauthd setup to authenticate against PAM. It seems to do its stuff:
root@sasltest:~# testsaslauthd -u quest -p #### -s smtp
0: OK "Success."
I have libsasl 2.1.23, postfix 2.7.1.
I ...
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Help! Linux server under SMTP SASLAUTHD attack!
My linux sendmail server is being forced out of commission by a flood of invalid smtp saslauthd logins.
Steady stream of PAM auth errors logged for saslauthd in messages.
I have searched and searched ...
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searching for the correct way to compile postfix
I am experiencing issues while compiling latest version of postfix from source code. At the moment I'm trying to compile version 3 because Debian 7 and latest Ubuntu 14,10 (version 2,9 and 2,11 for ...
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Ubuntu: Postfix and Cyrus expecting saslauthd PID file in different locations
I'm running postfix and cyrus in parallel on my server, as far as I understand this is a quite common think to do. Both daemons use sasl authorization. However, postfix is looking for the saslauthd ...
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postfix error: 535 5.7.8 Error: authentication failed: authentication failure
I need to connect to Dyn mail relay and I'm using their KB.
I'm trying to connect to my postfix server with telnet to port 25.
This is the postconf -n
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_maps =...
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Postfix omits realm (@domain) when checking for smtpd pam+mysql authentication
I've trying to configure Postfix so users can send email through SMTP having a username and password. And I'm trying to store credential within a MySQL database. I've taken the path of saslauthd and ...
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Postfix (SASL) / MySQL: Use MD5 Encryption?
Is it possible to use MD5 password encryption to encrypt passwords when using Postfix / SASL and MySQL? Currently, my setup is using the MySQL CRYPT() function, which for various reasons isn't ideal.
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Debugging a Postfix Saslauthd PAM-PGsql authentication failure
I've set up pam-pgsql to lookup passwords in my database for Postfix via Saslauthd.
I can test credentials using the command line:
$ sudo testsaslauthd -u [email protected] -p password
0: NO "...
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Postfix SMTP auth not working with virtual mailboxes + SASL + Courier userdb
So I've read a variety of tutorials and how-to's and I'm struggling to make sense of how to get SMTP auth working with virtual mailboxes in Postfix. I used this Ubuntu tutorial to get set up. I'm ...
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Postfix+saslauthd: pam_unix(smtp:auth): authentication failure
I'm run postfix 2.10 + Cyrus sasl 2.1 + Dovecot 2.2 on Oracle Linux 7.
Dovecot works with saslauthd normally, but Postfix always failed on authentication, wish someone can help to check what problem ...
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Postfix + SASL using wrong query to authenticate
I recently set up postfix + dovecot on a aws ec2 instance following this guide: http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix/#config-secure-auth
Currently I'm stuck with SASL.
The SQL query doesn't seem to be ...
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NO [ALERT] Unexpected response from remote authentication server
is what I see when I run testsaslauthd inside an strace
socket(PF_LOCAL, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 3
connect(3, {sa_family=AF_LOCAL, sun_path="/var/run/saslauthd/mux"}, 110) = 0
writev(3, [{"\0\34a....
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Postfix + SASLAUTHD + MySQL authentication problems
I've been trying to sort this out for the past 6 hours or so, this is the error message I'm facing (Running CentOS x64):
/var/log/maillog:
Jun 22 20:42:49 ptroa postfix/smtpd[10130]: warning: SASL ...
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SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed even when it works with testsaslauthd
I'm having some trouble configuring client authentication using saslauthd and postfix on ubuntu 22.04. The issue is that users are not getting authenticated although the user exists. It's my first ...
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Mail Server Memory buffer error
From time to time, my mail server stops sending any new mails. When this happened, I find the below error log,
Jun 22 23:10:18 myserver saslauthd[3967]: DEBUG: auth_pam: pam_authenticate failed: ...
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saslauthd on Red Hat 6.5 NO "authentication failed"
I'm trying to authorize an user of an active directory in a red hat linux 6.5. To do that I am using saslauthd. This is its configuration:
/etc/saslauthd.conf:
ldap_servers: ldap://...
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SASL accepts "wrong" passwords
I setup an mailserver with Postfix and configured it to use Cyrus SASL to authenticate my users. It worked perfectly, until I found out that I can login with shorter passwords than they actually are.
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What is wrong with my SASL?
So the story goes: I have a score of CentOS 6.9 virtual machines, migrated to Microsoft's Azure cloud by VHD upload. Once deployed I found out that Azure doesn't allow to send out email directly from ...
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Properly Configure Postfix to be secure (SASL + TLS)
I've followed online tutorials online to setup my mail server with SASL and TLS, and amavis.
It all seems to works - except i can send mails even if i don't authenticate first - which is not good.
I ...
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How to pass full user name to saslauthd from postfix [duplicate]
I'm trying to configure postfix for SMTP Auth using Cyrus saslauthd and an rimap configuration. I have it working, except for the fact that, due to virtual domains, the auth username for my IMAP ...
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What is a saslpasswd2 domain?
What does saslpasswd2 do, in particular, what is the domain option for:
-u domain
use domain for user domain (realm).
UPDATE: Suppose, I:
smtp login to smtp.mydomain.com,
as myself@...
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