SMTP-AUTH woes.

[Jonathan Horne]

On Sunday 30 July 2006 23:21, Greg Groth wrote:
> FreeBSD 6.1
> saslauthd version 2.1.22
> sendmail version 8.13.6
>
> My problem is that sendmail is not authenticating plain text passwords.
>
>  From my /etc/mail/hostname.mc file:
>
> define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS',`PLAIN LOGIN')dnl
> TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`PLAIN LOGIN')dnl
>
> However when I telnet to the server I find the following:
>
> 250-AUTH GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5
>
>  From my /etc/make.conf:
>
> SENDMAIL_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include -DSASL=2
> SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib
> SENDMAIL_LDADD=-lsasl2
>
>  From my /usr/local/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf file:
>
> pwcheck_method: saslauthd
>
>  From my /var/log/maillog file:
>
> Jul 30 23:08:01 mail sendmail[4061]: NOQUEUE: connect from root at localhost
> Jul 30 23:08:01 mail sendmail[4061]: STARTTLS: ServerCertFile missing
> Jul 30 23:08:01 mail sendmail[4061]: AUTH: available mech=NTLM LOGIN
> ANONYMOUS PLAIN GSSAPI OTP DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5, allowed mech=EXTERNAL
> GSSAPI KERBEROS_V4 DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5
> Jul 30 23:08:01 mail sendmail[4061]: k6V481s5004061: Milter: no active
> filter
>
> Everything seems to be in place.  SASL is running, and is working fine
> with the included testing tools, but sendmail does not seem to be
> accepting plain text logins.  This is the same setup I have up and
> running on a 6.0 box, but it doesn't seem to be working now.  Any ideas
> on what I might have screwed up?
>
> TIA
> Greg Groth

did you buildworld before you recompiled sendmail?  ive found that if i 
buildworld, that before i recompile sendmail (to implement sasl2) that i have 
to make clean on my /usr/src, or else make will try to use what was already 
recompiled for sendmail during the buildworld.

hth,
jonathan