Re: SASL borked after upgrade to wheezy [SOLVED]
On 14/05/14 10:48, tony@vanderhoff.org wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently upgraded my VPS from squeeze to wheezy using the Debian upgrade
> instructions. There were a few issues, most of which I've sorted, but this
> one's a killer.
>
> The server runs a postfix mail server with dovecot imap, and sasl
> authentication via mysql. After the upgrade I am no longer able to log on
> to send mail, the error message being:
>
> May 14 10:34:47 vanderhoff postfix/smtpd[6818]: Anonymous TLS connection
> established from magpieway.net[81.2.85.100]: TLSv1 with cipher
> ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)
> May 14 10:34:47 vanderhoff postfix/smtpd[6818]: warning:
> magpieway.net[81.2.85.100]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: generic
> failure
> May 14 10:34:47 vanderhoff postfix/smtpd[6818]: warning:
> magpieway.net[81.2.85.100]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: generic
> failure
>
> On the server:
> root@vanderhoff:/etc/cron.daily# testsaslauthd -uxxxx -pyyyy
> connect() : No such file or directory
>
> I imagine a socket is not created correctly.
>
> Fortunately Squirrelmail still works.
>
> Extensive Googling yields lots of results, but none appear relevant to
> this situation.
>
> Does anyone please have any suggestions, please as to how to debug this?
>
> Cheers, Tony
>
OK, ignore that.
In the squeezy setup, the file /etc/postfix/sasl contains the line:
sql_passw: xxxx
Something has changed to make this unacceptable, and changing it to:
sql_passwd: xxxx
has resolved the problem.
Don't know about the testsaslauthd.
Sorry for the noise.
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Tony van der Hoff | mailto:tony@vanderhoff.org
Buckinghamshire, England |
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