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Re: Upgrading from 2.5.1 to 2.5.4 (sasl error????).

From: Sandy Drobic (postfix-usersjapantest.homelinux.com)
Date: Wed Aug 20 2008 - 04:09:57 CDT


Santiago Romero wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> I tried to upgrade from a perfectly running postfix system
> (2.5.1 + SASL1) to 2.5.4, and got an strange error.
>
> I compiled 2.5.1 (tar.gz from postfix's website) 3 months ago with:
>
> make makefiles CCARGS="-DUSE_SASL_AUTH" -lsasl
> make
> make install
> (answered the install questions and installed postfix in /postfix/
> directory)
>
> It's been working nicely since then, but due to CVE-2008-2936 I
> downloaded 2.5.4 (tar.gz from postfix's website) and wrote:
>
> tar xvzf postfix-2.5.4.tar.gz
> cd postfix-2.5.4
> make makefiles CCARGS="-DUSE_SASL_AUTH" -lsasl

CCARGS='-DUSE_SASL_AUTH \
-DUSE_CYRUS_SASL'

When Dovecot authentication was introduced the arguments were changed. Now you
have to use -DUSE_CYRUS_SASL explicitely in order to compile support for Cyrus
sasl in.

> Now I'm trying to know what I'm doing wrong, because I'm using the same
> "configure/make" setup and the same main.cf/master.cf files...
>
> # postconf -n | grep -i sasl | grep -v authenticated
> broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
> smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
> smtpd_sasl_path = smtpd

# postconf -a
cyrus
dovecot

--
Sandy

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