Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) is a framework for authentication and data security in Internet protocols.
Questions tagged [sasl]
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"No worthy mechs found" when trying to relay email to Gmail using Postfix
I've been trying to configure email to forward to Gmail, using Postfix to relay email to smtp.gmail.com. However, I'm failing to get it to authenticate with smtp.gmail.com, which is a rather vital prerequisite to getting anything working…
The mail…
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gsnedders
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POSTFIX fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms
I am struggling with the error above for more than 5 hours.
I had tried to remove Postfix completely and I had followed the instructions of the next manual and the SASL manual in order to reinstall it.
When I am trying to login with telnet, the…
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user2979757
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SASL LOGIN authentication failed: UGFzc3dvcmQ6 - Find the username
First let me state that the mail server is working fine and users can connect and send email.
Basically there is a local web script connecting into the mail server trying to send mail every few minutes. It has the wrong password. Problem is we…
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Ryaner
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What is SASL/GSSAPI?
Numerous times i have met the expression SASL/GSSAPI. I have searched Google many times, but i simply do no understand what it is and how it relate to Kerberos.
Anybody that have a simple explanation on this?
NT332
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postfix sasl "cannot connect to saslauthd server: No such file or directory"
I try to setup postfix with smtp authentication.
I want to use /etc/shadow as my realm
Unfortunately I get a "generic error" when i try to authenticate
# nc localhost 25
220 mail.foo ESMTP Postfix
AUTH PLAIN…
user97262
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Postfix: how to use simple file for SASL authentication?
I'd like to run Postfix on a Debian VPS to send e-mails from my application. The application (running on other VPSes) would connect to Postfix via SMTP. Postfix does not have to handle incoming email; it's just about sending the outgoing…
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Jonathan
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How to get SASL authentication to work with DIGEST-MD5 for OpenLDAP?
I'm setting up OpenLDAP slapd on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr. I want certain instances (replication etc.) that aren't users to be able to login via SASL using DIGEST-MD5 mechanism.
Unlike users, they are not supposed to have a corresponding DN (along…
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Add GSSAPI to OpenLdap in supportedSASLMechanisms
I'm looking how to add the GSSAPI support into my OpenLDAP ?
Current setup
MIT Kerberos V + OpenLDAP
Kerberos bind to openldap
Able to issue kerberos tickets to my users (with kinit exampluser)
Able to ldapsearch -x uid=exampluser
Openldap…
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Tolsadus
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Dovecot SMTPD Sasl auth error: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms
I've googled this error and nothing I've read/tried works - anyone know what it is
Error log:
Feb 23 22:35:36 localhost postfix/smtpd[5278]: connect from localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1]
Feb 23 22:35:36 localhost postfix/smtpd[5278]: warning: SASL:…
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Adrian Cornish
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Postfix + sasl method rimap strips domain name from user
I'm setting up a mail server with Postfix and Courier-IMAP. I'd like to do SMTP authentication with rimap, so that I don't have to maintain two user DB's. The problem I'm having, is that the username postfix passes is stripped of its domain name. It…
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Halfgaar
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Can't get SASL auxprop/sasldb working with postfix/Ubuntu 12.04
I have an Ubuntu 8.04LTS system running Postfix 2.5.1. On that system SMTP AUTH runs fine. The contents of
/etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf are:
pwcheck_method: auxprop
auxprop_plugin: sasldb
mech_list: PLAIN
The SASL-related properties…
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QuantumMechanic
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Postfix "SASL authentication failure: No worthy mechs found"
Trying to use postfix with smtp to connect to google's smtp. When trying to send mail, I get this error:
Sep 15 14:04:41 zedsaid postfix/smtp[20271]: certificate verification failed for smtp.gmail.com[74.125.95.109]:587: untrusted issuer…
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Zed Said
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Postfix warning: SASL: Connect to /var/spool/postfix/private/auth failed: No such file or directory
I have searched, and failed to find an answer and I am out of ideas. I just do not know enough about postfix and dovecot to parse the configs or understand what may be causing this error.
warning: SASL: Connect to /var/spool/postfix/private/auth…
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Victor Major
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Svnserve authentication with SASL and normal user accounts
Is it possible to set up svnserve so that it authenticates using the system's users and passwords (e.g. using the /etc/shadow file)? I assume this would be with SASL, but I couldn't find an SASL configuration that worked this way.
I have a…
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saslauthd authentication error
My server has developed an expected problem where I am unable to connect from a mail client.
I've looked at the server logs and the only thing that looks to identify a problem are events like the following:
Nov 23 18:32:43 hig3 dovecot: imap-login:…
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James
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