Re: [SLE] smtp auth on SuSE 8.1 Does it Work??
On Sunday 29 February 2004 01:23, user86 wrote:
On Sunday 29 February 2004 01:25, John Andersen wrote:
I've been banging my head against the wall for two days on SuSE 8.1 and another server running SuSE 8.2 trying to get Smtp Auth to work with sasl.
The servers all report that they support cram-md5 and Digest-md5 but authentication always fails.
Has anyone gotten this to work?
The Docs leave a great deal unsaid about what the actual values you would enter in something like Kmail or Pegasus.
With more road warriers out there this is becomming essential and I wish SuSE would automate the procedure a bit...
I had problems even getting the plain text SMTP auth stuff to work on a little test server I had in SuSE 9 for a while until I later realized that smtp auth failed to work only when postfix was set to be chrooted in /etc/sysconfig/ postfix. If you tell it to not be chrooted (then run SuSEconfig --module postfix to let it reconfigure postfix after that change and then restart postfix), smtp auth works fine (at least in SuSE 9).
Thanks for the info. I'll check that out, although I am running sendmail on these servers as they are 8.x boxes. I did discover that I've been testing with kmail, and it will not recognize that the server supports any auth unless the auth mechs are in upper case. Yet the /etc/sysconfig/sendmail file lists them in lower case. What do you have in your /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd file and your /usr/lib/sasl2/Sendmail file? Did you find it necessary to use starttls as well? -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
On Sunday 29 February 2004 17:42, John Andersen wrote:
On Sunday 29 February 2004 01:23, user86 wrote:
On Sunday 29 February 2004 01:25, John Andersen wrote:
I've been banging my head against the wall for two days on SuSE 8.1 and another server running SuSE 8.2 trying to get Smtp Auth to work with sasl.
The servers all report that they support cram-md5 and Digest-md5 but authentication always fails.
Has anyone gotten this to work?
The Docs leave a great deal unsaid about what the actual values you would enter in something like Kmail or Pegasus.
With more road warriers out there this is becomming essential and I wish SuSE would automate the procedure a bit...
I had problems even getting the plain text SMTP auth stuff to work on a little test server I had in SuSE 9 for a while until I later realized that smtp auth failed to work only when postfix was set to be chrooted in /etc/sysconfig/ postfix. If you tell it to not be chrooted (then run SuSEconfig --module postfix to let it reconfigure postfix after that change and then restart postfix), smtp auth works fine (at least in SuSE 9).
Thanks for the info. I'll check that out, although I am running sendmail on these servers as they are 8.x boxes.
Ah. I thought you ran what SuSE installed by default in SuSE 8.1 which is postfix.
I did discover that I've been testing with kmail, and it will not recognize that the server supports any auth unless the auth mechs are in upper case. Yet the /etc/sysconfig/sendmail file lists them in lower case.
I haven't really tested any other forms of smtp auth with postfix other than just "login" (the one supported out of the box in a "minimal" install of suse 9) and that done over TLS or SSL on my LAN.
What do you have in your /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd file and your /usr/lib/sasl2/Sendmail file?
In my /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd I have: SASLAUTHD_AUTHMECH=pam I don't have the second file, most likely because I don't have sendmail installed.
Did you find it necessary to use starttls as well?
If you are using any of the clear text smtp auth options, I would definitely recommend encrypting the connection that the password is transferred over with TLS, but I got the "login" smtp auth option to work regardless of whether TLS was enabled or not in postfix.
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