Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 13:20:05 -0700 (PDT) From: "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/38801: sasl_apop_patch.gz breaks LOGIN mech (SMTP AUTH) Message-ID: <200206192020.g5JKK5d90537@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/38801; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net> To: "Seva Gluschenko" <gvs@rinet.ru>, <FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <noc@rinet.ru> Subject: Re: ports/38801: sasl_apop_patch.gz breaks LOGIN mech (SMTP AUTH) Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 15:16:18 -0500 From: "Seva Gluschenko" <gvs@rinet.ru> > >Description: > making Cyrus SASL library (used for SMTP AUTH) from ports results > to non-working LOGIN authentication mechanism. Experiments show this > situation to be result of sasl_apop_patch application. > >How-To-Repeat: > cd /usr/ports/security/cyrus-sasl > make > make install > > then recompile sendmail with SASL (as described in /etc/mail/README, > /etc/defaults/make.conf and sendmail documentation), install sendmail, > change sendmail configuration file and restart sendmail. > > N.B.: It wasn't tested against pwcheck method, only with SaslDB. > Try every MUA which is capable of LOGIN authentication (e.g. MSOE 5.5 > and higher). Sendmail will continuously re-request password, strings > in maillog will look like > > Jun 1 20:37:39 kolokol sm-mta[26436]: g51GbdVS026436: demo.rinet.ru > [195.54.192.69] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection > to MTA > I have rebuilt sendmail w/Cyrus-SASL support, and I can only reproduce the problem if "/usr/local/lib/sasl/Sendmail.conf" has the pwcheck_method set to"sasldb" (default) and the user hasn't been added to the sasldb database. Changing pwcheck_method to "pwcheck" in Sendmail.conf, and restarting sendmail, allows OE to use the LOGIN authentication method. The Sendmail.conf file is even mentioned in the PREFIX/share/doc/cyrus-sasl/Sendmail.README file. This PR can be closed as there is no problem with the APOP patch. Scot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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