sendmail sasl configuration

[Jamie]

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Sean Ellis wrote:

> >     It looks like the compilation worked.
>
> I swapped it in and it's working ok, but the authentication isn't up
> yet.
>
> >     Do you have this in line in your sendmail.mc file?
>
> >    define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `PLAIN CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5 LOGIN')dnl
>
> that I do, more or less ..
>
> dnl set SASL options
> TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN')dnl
> define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN')dnl
> define(`confDEF_AUTH_INFO', `/etc/mail/auth-info')dnl
>
> taken from the freebsd handbook.


   What do you have in /etc/mail/auth-info? Is that set up correctly?







>
> >>   I am trying to enable sasl and having some problems.
> >>
> >>   The sendmail that we are using is made by hand rather the ports;
> >>   the security/cyrus-sasl port was also installed. At this point
> >>   running the command `sendmail -d0.1 -bv root | grep SASL` gives the
> >>   following output:
> >>                   PIPELINING SASL SCANF TCPWRAPPERS USERDB XDEBUG
> >>
> >>   However telnetting to port 25 with the new sendmail running gives
> >>   only:
> >>
> >> Connected to localhost.linwoodhomes.com.
> >> Escape character is '^]'.
> >> 220 xxxxxxxxxxx.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.2/8.12.2; Sat, 23 Aug 2003 11:27:17 -0700 (PDT)
> >> ehlo localhost
> >> 250-xxxxxxxxxxx.com Hello localhost.xxxxxxxxxx.com [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you
> >> 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
> >> 250-PIPELINING
> >> 250-EXPN
> >> 250-VERB
> >> 250-8BITMIME
> >> 250-SIZE
> >> 250-DSN
> >> 250-ETRN
> >> 250-AUTH LOGIN
> >> 250-DELIVERBY
> >> 250 HELP
> >>
> >> and the following log error appears when restarting sendmail:
> >>
> >> error: safesasl(/usr/local/etc/sasldb.db) failed: Permission denied
> >>
> >> file is:
> >>
> >> -rw-r-----  1 cyrus  wheel  16384 Aug 22 17:23 /usr/local/etc/sasldb.db
> >>
> >> sendmail.mc options were taken from the freebsd handbook page on the
> >> topic.
> >>
> >> Can anyone steer me in the right direction here?
>
> --
>
>  Sean                            mailto:sellis at telus.net
>
>

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