From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050110 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0+dfsg.1-2) Description of problem: /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd sets the defualt authentication mechinism to shaddow, rather than pam, this breaks auth for anyone not useing shadow MECH=shadow Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): sendmail-8.13.1-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install sendmail 2. Install yp (nis) 3. Setup sendmail to use auth on sending 4. Try to send mail, useing auth from a valid yp user Actual Results: Failed to send mail, with user/password unknown type error Expected Results: Mail should have been accepted, as the user is a valid user Additional info:
I think you got the component wrong. /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd is owned by cyrus-sasl-2.1.19-3 ...
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