I'm trying to setup sasl for authentication with pam. The problem is, it's not working: saslauthd[14463] :do_auth : auth failure: [user=tom] [service=smtp] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error] I've tried it with shadow, but it still doesn't work. The only way sasl does work, if I use auxprop to have sasl use its own database. The reason I don't want to stay with this, is because I'm having problems logging into my courier-imap account using pam. So I thinking the problems is somewhere in pam. I've looked all over for a solution, but I've found nothing. Should the default /etc/pam.d/smtp file allow logins? Do I have to modify it to work with pam? I thought authentication with pam should work straight out of the box, am I wrong about this? I even thought there might be a problem with system libs, so I did a fresh install on another partition for testing; only to come up with the same result. /etc/postfix/main.cf (the sasl part): ==================================== smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl2_auth_enable = yes smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination, reject_sender_login_mismatch smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes /etc/pam.d/smtp: =============== auth required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth account required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth /etc/sasl2/smtpd.conf: ===================== pwcheck_method: saslauthd mech_list: LOGIN PLAIN Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: $ telnet eigen 25 Trying 192.168.1.2... Connected to eigen.tomek.ca. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mail.tomek.ca ESMTP Postfix AUTH PLAIN ************************ 535 Error: authentication failed Portage 2.0.50-r7 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.4 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 1.90GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.9 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.57-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -mmmx -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -mmmx -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/packages/pentium3" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://eigen.tomek.ca/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow S3TC X X509 aalib acl alsa apm arts avi berkdb bindist bonobo cdr crypt cscope cups directfb divx4linux doc dvd encode esd fbcon foomaticdb gdbm gif gimpprint gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imap imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww lzw-tiff mad maildir mbox mmx mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mozxmlterm mpeg ncurses nls nogcj noreiserfs oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl plotutils png pnp python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype type1 unicode usb video_cards_nvidia vim-with-x wifi wildlsearch wmf wxwindows x86 xchattext xerces xface xine xml2 xv xvid zlib"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 39497 ***
