Hi all, I saw the other thread on this (chmod 777 .... and so on) and that did not work. I am still getting this error. Here's my postfix configuration (main.cfg). Please let me know what other information I can provide: there's obviously a permissions problems here but I thought saslauthd ran as root. Code: # See /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.dist for a commented, more complete version # Debian specific: Specifying a file name will cause the first # line of that file to be used as the name. The Debian default # is /etc/mailname. #myorigin = /etc/mailname smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Ubuntu) biff = no # appending .domain is the MUA's job. append_dot_mydomain = no # Uncomment the next line to generate "delayed mail" warnings #delay_warning_time = 4h # TLS parameters smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.crt smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/ssl/smtpd.key smtpd_use_tls = yes smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_directory}/smtpd_scache smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_directory}/smtp_scache # See /usr/share/doc/postfix/TLS_README.gz in the postfix-doc package for # information on enabling SSL in the smtp client. myhostname = tcc1.ath.cx alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases myorigin = /etc/mailname mydestination = tcc1.ath.cx, ubuntu, localhost.localdomain, localhost relayhost = [smtp.att.yahoo.com]:587 mynetworks = 0.0.0.0/0 mailbox_size_limit = 0 recipient_delimiter = + home_mailbox = Maildir/ mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION" smtpd_sasl_local_domain = smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject_unauth_destination inet_interfaces = all smtpd_tls_auth_only = no smtp_use_tls = yes smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/ssl/cacert.pem smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1 smtpd_tls_received_header = yes smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom Thanks in advance for any and all help! Cheers, Migm
Thanks for your help. I had already tried this still getting the following Code: Apr 26 10:55:19 tcc1 postfix/smtpd[21126]: warning: SASL authentication failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: Permission denied Apr 26 10:55:19 tcc1 postfix/smtpd[21126]: warning: SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed Apr 26 10:55:19 tcc1 postfix/smtpd[21126]: warning: maxlaptop.local[192.168.1.2]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: generic failure passwd file Code: postfix:x:110:120::/var/spool/postfix:/bin/false groups file Code: sasl:x:1001:postfix
Well, i got it to work, but I am not confident that my methodology was very secure. I ran smtpd with strace debugging turned on and saw the reason that things weren't working was that postfix was searching for my saslauthd file in /var/run/saslauthd. The only mention of the /var/run directory i saw was in the saslauthd init.d file, which i changed to reflect the /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd directory. That didn't work, so I ended up copying and linking all the files necessary from the /spool directory into the /var/run/saslauthd directory. I can't imagine this is terribly secure? Where is postfix pulling this /var/run directory from, anyway? If i can change that, I'd rather delete what I've done and do it the correct way. Thanks! migm
"Cannot connect to saslauthd server: Permission denied" was caused by permission errors for me. Changed /var/run/saslauthd permissions, chmod a+rx and things worked. Postfix was not chroot'd and there was no group for saslauthd to add Postfix.
password For those that all of the above doesn't solve the problem... check your password! If it has a '#' sign all that is after the # gets ignored in "/etc/pam.d /smtp" and therefore you will have these nice errors in /var/log/auth.log : pam_mysql - required option "db" is not set DEBUG: auth_pam: pam_authenticate failed: Error in service module Source: here.
