10.1 BETA2 World - Breaks saslauthd

Jan Bramkamp crest at rlwinm.de
Sat Sep 27 14:04:41 UTC 2014


On 25.09.2014 17:04, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> On 25 Sep 2014, at 16:54, Tim Daneliuk <tundra at tundraware.com> wrote:
>> I've seen this behavior over the last week or two when I try to upgrade
>> to latest stable sources.  Currently just installed kernel and world for:
>>
>> /usr/src>svn info
>> Path: .
>> Working Copy Root Path: /usr/src
>> URL: svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/10
>> Relative URL: ^/stable/10
>> Repository Root: svn://svn.freebsd.org/base
>> Repository UUID: ccf9f872-aa2e-dd11-9fc8-001c23d0bc1f
>> Revision: 272095
>> Node Kind: directory
>> Schedule: normal
>> Last Changed Author: peter
>> Last Changed Rev: 272078
>> Last Changed Date: 2014-09-24 14:30:36 -0500 (Wed, 24 Sep 2014)
>>
>> This breaks saslauthd - it demands a password when sending mail, but then
>> rejects it in every case.
>>
>> If I just install a new kernel, everything is fine.  But if I install
>> world, that's when the problem shows up.  I've tried a full reinstall of
>> cygnus sasls and the daemon is running.
>>
>> Ideas on how to chase this down/fix, would be appreciated...
> 
> It is probably caused by this MFC: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/271766
> 
> To make saslauthd work again, you need to specify a correct PAM policy
> file in /usr/local/etc/pam.d for your service, most likely "smtp" in
> this case.  E.g., create a file /usr/local/etc/pam.d/smtp, containing at
> least:
> 
> auth            required        pam_unix.so             no_warn try_first_pass
> account         required        pam_unix.so
> session         required        pam_permit.so
> password        required        pam_permit.so
> 
> Optionally, add a line:
> 
> auth            required        pam_group.so            luser group=smtp-users fail_safe
> 
> to allow only members of the smtp-users group to authenticate
> successfully.
> 
> -Dimitry
> 

If I remember correctly saslauthd -a pam is hardcoded to always use the
PAM service "imap".


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