Hide Forgot
Description of problem: Sendmail in RHEL 3.0 is linked to wrong cyrus-sasl library. It should be linked to libsasl2.so.2 but it is linked to libsasl.so.7 which is an older version of cyrus-sasl. Because of this, I believe, sendmail is not able to communicate with any cyrus-sasl component. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Try to configure Sendmail for SMTP AUTH with saslauthd, it will not work and you will get the following error in logs: saslauthd do_request : login exceeded MAX_REQ_LEN: 256 Steps to Reproduce: 1.in /usr/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf set: pwcheck_method: saslauthd 2. in /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd set MECH=pam 3. enable authentication while sending mail in any client and send mail, when prompted type in any system username and password. Actual results: Error message in Logs: Sendmail: Authentication Failed saslauthd do_request : login exceeded MAX_REQ_LEN: 256 Expected results: sendmail should accept mail with successful authentication Additional info:
sendmail is linked against sasl1, because LDAP is linked against sasl1 and there is a major problem in mixing sasl1 and sasl2. Closing as "NOT A BUG".
but then saslauthd should have been linked with sasl1 otherwise how can they communicate? the documentation with redhat says i can use saslauthd as method in /usr/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf which is not true!
sasauthd is sasl2 only. You have to use the sasl1 config file in /usr/lib/sasl/: pwcheck_method:pam
i've recompiled sendmail rpm with sasl2, now sendmail works with saslauthd as well as ldap. I tried only simple Bind. If this is enough indication of sendmail working properly with LDAP, then its working!
Just have a look at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=124086 and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=125383 Closing as "NOT A BUG".