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Author:  freeweaver [ Sat Aug 27, 2011 5:36 pm ]
Post subject:  SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed
Hi all,

I have for the past few days been trying to setup my linode for many things however, the one thing i can't seem to get working completely at the moment is mail.

I have followed http://library.linode.com/email/postfix/dovecot-mysql-debian-6-squeeze as closely as I possibly could and seem to have come up trumps in regard to everything except smtp authentication. As in, I can't send mails from the created vmail users.

The following is from my linodes /var/log/mail.log

Code:
Aug 27 13:46:53 li311-198 postfix/smtpd[24693]: warning: SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed

Aug 27 13:46:53 li311-198 postfix/smtpd[24693]: warning: my.ip.add.opaltelecom.net[my.ip.add]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: authentication failure


And this is from my linodes /var/log/auth.log

Code:
Aug 27 13:46:45 li311-198 saslauthd[24677]: pam_mysql - MySQL error (Access denied for user 'mail_admin'@'localhost' (using password: NO))

Aug 27 13:46:45 li311-198 saslauthd[24677]: DEBUG: auth_pam: pam_authenticate failed: Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info

Aug 27 13:46:45 li311-198 saslauthd[24677]: do_auth         : auth failure: [user=me@mydomain.com] [service=smtp] [realm=mydomain.com] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error]


Now, I'm pretty sure I havn't done the obvious and *not* changed the ""mail_admin_password" which the tutorial is very carefull to state everytime its needed, as I've checked all files relating to sasl authentication.

So, my first question; is there any way I can search for the text "mail_admin_password" in all files on my linode without doing it one by one?

And my second question; what is the most likely problem if not the unchanged mail_admin_password?

let me know if I haven't provided enough info.

Thanks
Author:  reaktor [ Sat Aug 27, 2011 5:51 pm ]
Post subject: 
I'd say to set / reset your user's sasl password to see if that clears it up.

Code:
sudo saslpasswd2 username


Or test the sasl password with:
Code:
testsaslauthd


PS: The mysql bit complicates things for this. You don't have to use mysql in your email setup, but I guess you can.

Out of the boxes most MTAs are set to use usernames/passwords of regular Linux accounts on the box. And then you can get more fancy from there if you have varying domains, and such.
Author:  freeweaver [ Sat Aug 27, 2011 6:28 pm ]
Post subject:  Unfortunately...
Hi reaktor,

Thanks for the quick reply, you caught me off guard;)

I reset the password as suggested for what I think is the username (is it me@mydomain.com, or just, me ?)

I then tried to test the authentication as suggested
Code:
testsaslauthd -u me -p mypassword


however, I got this:

Code:
-bash: mypassword: event not found


I guess I am doing something (everything) wrong?


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Author:  feanor [ Sun Aug 28, 2011 11:03 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Unfortunately...
freeweaver wrote:
Code:
-bash: mypassword: event not found


I guess I am doing something (everything) wrong?


I suspect you have a special character like an exclamation mark in your password and aren't escaping it, so the shell is interpreting it as an event.

Try setting a simple alphanumeric password without special characters first for testing (if you make it long enough you can make it as secure as a shorter password with special characters). When you've gotten things working with that you can then try re-adding special characters in step 2.
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