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Re: Followup on SASL PLAIN

From: Andreas Winkelmann (mlawinkelmann.de)
Date: Mon Nov 24 2003 - 13:49:11 CST


Am Montag, 24. November 2003 20:43 schrieb Tyler Berry:

> I've confirmed pretty thoroughly that SASL is able to authenticate using
> PLAIN any password which does not contain a dollar sign; the basic gist
> of the configuration is saslauthd, shadow method.
>
> When I auth a password without a dollar sign, everything goes fine. When
> I attempt to auth a password -with- a dollar sign, Postfix never
> contacts saslauthd for its opinion on the password; it comes up with:
>
> warning: SASL authentication failure: Can only find author/en (no password)
>
> Does anybody have any ideas/suggestions?

Show an example-string, please. I would guess, you build the auth-string by
hand and there goes something wrong with mime-encoding.

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        Andreas