Postfix and SASL2 authentication

H. Wade Minter minter at lunenburg.org
Thu Nov 13 07:48:25 PST 2003


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I've been able to get Postfix and SASL1 to authenticate to system accounts
under FreeBSD with no problem, but now I'm trying to use SASL2.  I'm
running into problems.

I built postfix and sasl2 from ports with no problems.  I created
/usr/local/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf:

pwcheck_method: saslauthd
mech_list: plain login

saslauthd is being run with the "-a getpwent" flags from /etc/rc.conf.

Postfix is set up to use SASL:

enable_sasl_authentication = yes
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtpd_sasl_local_domain = $myhostname
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes

However, when I test with a base64-encoded username\0username\0password
string, it doesn't authenticate:

Nov 13 07:46:29 taz postfix/smtpd[327]: < localhost[127.0.0.1]: AUTH PLAIN
bWludGVyAG1pbnRlcgBjaGFuZ2VtZQ==
Nov 13 07:46:29 taz postfix/smtpd[327]: smtpd_sasl_authenticate:
sasl_method PLAIN, init_response bWludGVyAG1pbnRlcgBjaGFuZ2VtZQ==
Nov 13 07:46:29 taz postfix/smtpd[327]: smtpd_sasl_authenticate: decoded
initial response minter
Nov 13 07:46:29 taz postfix/smtpd[327]: warning: SASL authentication
failure: Password verification failed
Nov 13 07:46:29 taz postfix/smtpd[327]: warning: localhost[127.0.0.1]:
SASL PLAIN authentication failed
Nov 13 07:46:29 taz postfix/smtpd[327]: > localhost[127.0.0.1]: 535 Error:
authentication failed

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

- --Wade
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