Sendmail/SASL2/saslauthdb problem

[jflowers]

Nibbed in here without reading the rest of the thread as I just finished
debugging some dovecot SASL.  On FreeBSD mmencode can't be used, even with
printf for 'auth plain' because it can't handle the null (\0) characters
required.  At least I couldn't figure out how to do it. My solution was to use
perl with MIME::Base64 installed as in:

perl -MMIME::Base64 -e 'print
encode_base64("user\@domain.tld\0user\@domain.tld\0password");'

mmencode -u can be used to test the encoding as there are no nulls:

perl -MMIME::Base64 -e 'print
encode_base64("user\@domain.tld\0user\@domain.tld\0password");'
| mmencode -u


On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 05:13:17 -0400, Rob Szarka wrote
> *ahem*
> 
> I would like to point out the following obvious (in retrospect) 
> advice about testing smtp auth by hand:
> 
> when using mmencode to translate to base64, one should
> 
> printf "username" | mmencode
> 
> not
> 
> echo "username" | mmencode
> 
> Of course, it wasn't working from my usual MUA either, originally; 
> but after I  fixed my problem, I didn't know it was fixed because I 
> was testing with a bad username and password.
> 
> *sigh*
> 
> After a complete deinstall/reinstall/reconfigure didn't work, I 
> caught on...
> 
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