Re: postfix and sasl pwcheck

On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 12:10, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
> * Emiliano Brunetti <emiliano.brunetti@fastwebnet.it> [040226 12:07]:
> > I see. I'd rather solve this with stable debian packages. I tried to
> > compile from source but ran in so many problems...and i didn't want to
> > rely on backports or unstable tree, too many things to install/update
> > from backports and unstable to work with sasl2 and saslauthd.
> >
> > Does anybody know where such an ancient version of postfix looks for
> > pwcheck socket? And possibly what permissions are needed? Since ppl
> > report it to work, it must be put somewhere. Unfortunately all the docs
> > i found on the net report my same configuration as working, same
> > versions of packages. But in my case it doesn't work. :(
>
> You don't by any chance, run smtpd chrooted, do you? In this case smtpd
> can't see the socket...

Sure. I tried both. I tried not chrooted and i also tried chrooted with
a symlink the socket inside the chroot jail. None worked. Looks like
postfix doesn't search for the socket, tries the wrong path or can't
access for some reason (permissions?).

I didn't have a clue about where to find the socket, and could find it
only by strace pop3d. The output told me it was opening a unix socket in
/var/state/pwcheck/pwcheck, and stracing pwcheck told me that it was
doing all the auth stuff (like querying mysql).

Unfortunately i couldn't do the same for postfix, i really don't know
how it could be done. Still i think it could help, even only to check
that it is actually searching for something when i ask for some kind of
auth mechanism.

Start to think that the debian postfix-tls package is broken
somewhere...

E.