10.1 BETA2 World - Breaks saslauthd

Mark Felder feld at FreeBSD.org
Thu Sep 25 15:28:04 UTC 2014



On Thu, Sep 25, 2014, at 10:04, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> On 25 Sep 2014, at 16:54, Tim Daneliuk <tundra at tundraware.com> wrote:
> > I've seen this behavior over the last week or two when I try to upgrade
> > to latest stable sources.  Currently just installed kernel and world for:
> > 
> > /usr/src>svn info
> > Path: .
> > Working Copy Root Path: /usr/src
> > URL: svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/10
> > Relative URL: ^/stable/10
> > Repository Root: svn://svn.freebsd.org/base
> > Repository UUID: ccf9f872-aa2e-dd11-9fc8-001c23d0bc1f
> > Revision: 272095
> > Node Kind: directory
> > Schedule: normal
> > Last Changed Author: peter
> > Last Changed Rev: 272078
> > Last Changed Date: 2014-09-24 14:30:36 -0500 (Wed, 24 Sep 2014)
> > 
> > This breaks saslauthd - it demands a password when sending mail, but then
> > rejects it in every case.
> > 
> > If I just install a new kernel, everything is fine.  But if I install
> > world, that's when the problem shows up.  I've tried a full reinstall of
> > cygnus sasls and the daemon is running.
> > 
> > Ideas on how to chase this down/fix, would be appreciated...
> 
> It is probably caused by this MFC:
> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/271766
> 
> To make saslauthd work again, you need to specify a correct PAM policy
> file in /usr/local/etc/pam.d for your service, most likely "smtp" in
> this case.  E.g., create a file /usr/local/etc/pam.d/smtp, containing at
> least:
> 
> auth            required        pam_unix.so             no_warn
> try_first_pass
> account         required        pam_unix.so
> session         required        pam_permit.so
> password        required        pam_permit.so
> 
> Optionally, add a line:
> 
> auth            required        pam_group.so            luser
> group=smtp-users fail_safe
> 
> to allow only members of the smtp-users group to authenticate
> successfully.
> 


Hmm sounds like we need a bug report to request that an example
pam.d/smtp be provided and an UPDATING entry perhaps.


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