Virtual Mailhosting System with Postfix Guide Problem

[jselman]

Hi, I have been trying to configure a mail server as explained in the Virtual Mailhosting System with Postfix guide. I followed the guide step by step, but i have problems initializing Cyrus-sasl...

this is what happens:

zangano root # /etc/init.d/saslauthd start
* Starting saslauthd...
/usr/sbin/saslauthd: invalid option -- H
usage: saslauthd [options]

option information:
-a <authmech> Selects the authentication mechanism to use.
-c Enable credential caching.
-d Debugging (don't detach from tty, implies -V)
-O <option> Optional argument to pass to the authentication
mechanism.
-l Disable accept() locking. Increases performance, but
may not be compatible with some operating systems.
-m <path> Alternate path for the saslauthd working directory,
must be absolute.
-n <procs> Number of worker processes to create.
-s <kilobytes> Size of the credential cache (in kilobytes)
-t <seconds> Timeout for items in the credential cache (in seconds)
-v Display version information and available mechs
-V Enable verbose logging
authentication mechanisms and exit.
-h Dispaly this message.

saslauthd 2.1.14
authentication mechanisms: getpwent pam rimap shadow [ ok ]
zangano root #

Is my /etc/init.d/saslauthd script erroneous?

Thanx

jselman

[gautamg]

if any of the files are different from defaults (i.e. if you changed them), please post them here.


/etc/init.d/saslauthd
/etc/conf.d/saslauthd

[jselman]

Here are the files you requested:

zangano conf.d # cat saslauthd
# Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/dev-libs/cyrus-sasl/files/saslauthd.conf,v 1.2 2004/03/04 18:36:16 vapier Exp $

# Config file for /etc/init.d/saslauthd

# Authentications mechanism (for list see saslauthd -v)
SASL_AUTHMECH=pam

# Hostname for remote IMAP server (if rimap auth mech is used)
SASL_RIMAP_HOSTNAME=""

# Honour time-of-day login restrictions (if shadow auth mech is used)
# Make this ="" to turn it off. Putting =no will turn it on!
SASL_TIME_OF_DAY_LOGIN_RESTRICTIONS=yes


# Tack the above options together
[ -n ${SASL_AUTHMECH} ] && \
SASLAUTHD_OPTS="-a ${SASL_AUTHMECH}"
[ -n ${SASL_RIMAP_HOSTNAME} ] && \
SASLAUTHD_OPTS="${SASLAUTHD_OPTS} -H ${SASL_RIMAP_HOSTNAME}"
[ -n ${SASL_TIME_OF_DAY_LOGIN_RESTRICTIONS} ] && \
SASLAUTHD_OPTS="${SASLAUTHD_OPTS} -T"

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


zangano init.d # cat saslauthd
#!/sbin/runscript
# Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/dev-libs/cyrus-sasl/files/saslauthd2.rc6,v 1.5 2004/03/04 18:37:57 vapier Exp $

depend() {
need net
}

start() {
ebegin "Starting saslauthd"
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/saslauthd \
-- ${SASLAUTHD_OPTS}
eend $?
}

stop() {
ebegin "Stopping saslauthd"
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile /var/lib/sasl2/saslauthd.pid
eend $?
}


Thanx for your help

J

[sputicus]

I have the exact same problem.

One thing I noticed was that when the guide asked me to edit /etc/sasl2/smtpd.conf (in the Cyrus-sasl section) the file did not exist. So I created it and put the lines

[sputicus]

Looks like this has been discussed in this thread.

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=60112&highlight=saslauthd+invalid+option

They suggest changing the -H to -O in /etc/conf.d/saslauthd, but that does not seem to make much sense to me. Can anyone clarify that is this the right thing to do?

[sputicus]

Ok, according to the man page for saslauthd, the -H option has been depricated.

[gautamg]

This is a known bug
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41247

If gentoo bugzilla allows voting, go vote for it.

The work around is to change -H to -O in your config file.

Another workaround is to start the process by hand with
/usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam