E-mail sent to www@gentoo.org by Glen Hosking (glen(a)honeysplash-org): """ Hi, in the last couple of weeks I have followed the guide located at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml - "Virtual Mailhosting System with Postfix". I found that from the emerge/ebuild that I did, that sasl2 looks in /usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf for its settings and NOT in /etc/sasl2/smtpd.conf. The solution was to copy the smtpd.conf to the correct directory. This was extremely difficult for me to troubleshoot as there were no obvious errors, and sasl was just starting with its default (whatever that is). I eventually found an indirect reference to the location from a google search, made the change, and everything started working. The change/advice needs to be included in Section 4 - "4. Cyrus-sasl". Hope this helps for anyone else having similar problems. My version of sasl is: * dev-libs/cyrus-sasl Latest version available: 2.1.14 Latest version installed: 2.1.14 Size of downloaded files: 1,343 kB Homepage: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/sasl/ Description: The Cyrus SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Lay License: as-is Regards. """
An additionnal message from the initial reporter: """ Here is the output of running saslauthd (cyrus-sasl 2.1.14) in debug mode, attached to the terminal. --- start --- ocean init.d # /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam -d saslauthd[32348] :main : num_procs : 5 saslauthd[32348] :main : mech_option: NULL saslauthd[32348] :main : run_path : /var/lib/sasl2 saslauthd[32348] :main : auth_mech : pam saslauthd[32348] :ipc_init : using accept lock file: /var/lib/sasl2/mux.accept saslauthd[32348] :detach_tty : master pid is: 0 saslauthd[32348] :ipc_init : listening on socket: /var/lib/sasl2/mux saslauthd[32348] :main : using process model saslauthd[32349] :get_accept_lock : acquired accept lock saslauthd[32348] :have_baby : forked child: 32349 saslauthd[32348] :have_baby : forked child: 32350 saslauthd[32348] :have_baby : forked child: 32351 saslauthd[32348] :have_baby : forked child: 32352 --- end --- The "run_path" is where it looks for the smtpd.conf file, which is in /var/lib/sasl2. Now, when I installed cyrus-sasl it didn't create a /var/lib/sasl2 directory. I noticed there was a /usr/lib/sasl2 directory so I created a link to it. See following. --- start --- ocean init.d # cd /var/lib ocean lib # ls -ld sasl2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jun 20 22:25 sasl2 -> /usr/lib/sasl2 --- end --- There were also some changes I had to make to the /etc/conf.d/saslauthd file in order for "/etc/init.d/saslauthd start" to work I just emerged cyrus-sasl 2.1.18-r2 and it has a fix for the /etc/conf.d/saslauthd file. I also found that in order for my email configuration to authenticate I had to include the "pam-mysql" parameter in the USE variable. When I did this it worked. The /etc/sasl2 did not exist with the 1.1.14 ebuild, but it exists now and has a copy of the smtpd.conf that I had in /usr/lib/sasl2. I renamed /usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf to another name, restarted saslauthd and all is well. So my workaround of placing smtpd.conf in /usr/lib/sasl2 is no longer required. So perhaps it was a bad e-build for cyrus-sasl 2.1.14 that was the problem. A very bad ebuild. Anyone following the instructions with the latest ebuild now just needs "pam-mysql" set. """ So everything is fixed. I Add "pam-mysql" in the USE flags list of the virt-mail-howto.xml doc.
