i am using a virtual mailserver setup exactly the way it is described on the virtual mailserver howto on gentoo.org. what happens is, that when i emerge cyrus-sasl in a version greater than 2.1.18-r2 the pam_mysql authentication fails with the following entry in /var/log/messages. -- May 16 12:11:59 perceptor saslauthd[2814]: DEBUG: auth_pam: pam_authenticate failed: Permission denied May 16 12:11:59 perceptor saslauthd[2814]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=yps] [service=smtp] [realm=schanzengeeks.net] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error] May 16 12:11:59 perceptor postfix/smtpd[27843]: warning: SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed May 16 12:11:59 perceptor postfix/smtpd[27843]: warning: c215236.adsl.hansenet.de[213.39.215.236]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed -- this perfectly works when i use cyrus-sasl-2.1.18-r2 because pam_mysql is a valid use flag and sets up cyrus-sasl to authenticate properly. however, i really would like this getting fixed, either in the way the documentation gets changed so it will work with the latest cyrus sasl or cyrus sasl gets some backports so pam_mysql will work. i have set this bug to be a blocker, because it really _blocks_ everything about mysql authentication / virtual mailserver setup as stated in the howto. i am not the first person falling in this pit... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.follow the virtual mailserver howto on gentoo.org (yes, exactly what is written there) 2.emerge cyrus-sasl 3.try to authenticate via sql... Actual Results: well, cyrus-sasl-2.1.20 gets installed what somehow forces pam_mysql to not work. Expected Results: proper mysql authentication as stated in the documentation. perceptor postfix # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0/2.4, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.4.30-grsec-2.1.5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.30-grsec-2.1.5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, May 9 2005, 00:30:52)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r7 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.22-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fstack-protector" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fstack-protector" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt emboss encode foomaticdb fortran gd gd-external gdbm gif gpm gtk2 imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jpeg libg++ libwww mad maildir memlimit mikmod mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pam pam-mysql pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sasl sdl spell ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vhost vhosts xml xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
sorry guys, i found the solution for this bug myself. when emerging cyrus-sasl it wants to replace /etc/conf.d/saslauthd with the default settings. default settings do not contain the valid string SASLAUTHD_OPTS="${SASLAUTH_MECH} -a pam -r" they contain SASLAUTHD_OPTS="${SASLAUTH_MECH} -a pam" this stopped the whole thing from working. cheers, toskala
Bug is not meant to be assigned to 'Developer Relations', reopening so I can put it elsewhere, then I'll close as it was self-resolved.
Closing the bug again :)
