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Date:      Sat, 23 Aug 2003 21:30:47 -0700
From:      Sean Ellis <sellis@telus.net>
To:        "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzelsw@westbend.net>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sendmail sasl configuration
Message-ID:  <100171977788.20030823213047@telus.net>
In-Reply-To: <018e01c369f1$c439e830$11fd2fd8@westbend.net>
References:  <115133702237.20030823105257@telus.net> <00f801c369a6$2c3bf3c0$11fd2fd8@westbend.net> <21137037938.20030823114832@telus.net> <4151151969.20030823154344@telus.net> <018e01c369f1$c439e830$11fd2fd8@westbend.net>

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Hello Scot,

Saturday, August 23, 2003, 8:42:37 PM, you wrote:

>> I get relaying now:
>>
>> Aug 23 16:09:29 XXX sm-mta[54776]: AUTH=server,
> relay=boi4263cy38nf.bc.hsia.telus.net [216.232.133.79],
>>  authid=testuser, mech=LOGIN, bits=0
>>
>> which I imagine indicates a plain text exchange. I still get the error
> below.
>>
>> error: safesasl(/usr/local/etc/sasldb.db) failed: Permission denied

> Add theses flags to your sendmail startup script:

>     -O LogLevel=14 -d44.4

> This will create additional output on each file and directories that
> sendmail tries to access.  Check the permissions for the /usr, /usr/local/,
> /usr/local/etc/ directories.  Making sure that sendmail has read access to
> these directories.

that's excellent ! voila !

Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.xxxhomes.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 xxx.xxxhomes.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.2/8.12.2; Sat, 23 Aug 2003 21:55:50 -0700 (PDT)
ehlo localhost
250-xxx.xxxhomes.com Hello localhost.xxxhomes.com [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-EXPN
250-VERB
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE
250-DSN
250-ETRN
250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN
250-DELIVERBY
250 HELP

Somehow I'd nuked the ownership and permissions on /usr/local/etc.
Straightening it out cleared up the problem.

> You should switch to the saslauthd, as the pwcheck daemon has been removed
> the Cyrus-SASL V2.

 You figure? I have no man entry for saslauthd. It was the cyrus-sasl
 that I installed rather the cyrus-sasl2.

 --
Thanks again,
 Sean                            mailto:sellis@telus.net



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