Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) is a framework for authentication and data security in Internet protocols.
Questions tagged [sasl]
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Postfix SMTP sender access restrictions
The issue:
Couple of days ago we faced spam attack from external IP that was using a real external domain to send around 7k email to different external domains like yahoo, hotmail, gmail ....etc, that i had to block that ip by the firewall…

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SMTP-SASL authentification doesn't work
I created another thread previously, where I reported about the problem that I wasn't able to get saslauthd starting up at all:
SMTP authentification: saslauthd won't start
I now re-installed a completely new Ubuntu 16.04 system on my VPS in order…

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Postfix SASL allow SMTP Authentication and relay messages
I am trying to set my SMTP server so it allows only SMTP authenticated users to send emails but the actual sending is done via Mailjet.
I am running on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Postfix version is mail_version = 2.9.6
If client authenticates with…

Vojtech B
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ldap_bind: Invalid credentials (49) when configuring Pass-Trough authentication with SASL in OpenLDAP with AD
I'm using ubuntu 14.04 and OpenLDAP-2.4.40. I have synchronized Active Directory users in OpenLDAP using LSC utility. Now I want to do the authentications on the OpenLDAP part and will use the AD password using Pass-Trough authentication with…

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Why does svnserve still ask for password via svn+ssh when sasl is used?
I have svnserve configured to run from inetd and svnserve.conf set to use sasl for authentication. This is so I could allow access to some repositories by users who do not have system-wide accounts using svn://.
However, for users who do have a…

sparkyb
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Postfix multi instance with separate SASLDB for each instance
I configured postfix with multiple instances (postmulti), each instance has your own IP address and it´s working great, but I need each instance uses it´s own sasldb2 file to authenticate users.
The problem I am consolidating 35 postfix dedicated…

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How to ensure encrypted OpenLDAP sessions using SASL/GSSAPI
I am running OpenLDAP 2.4 on a Debian jessie system. Clients typically connect to this LDAP server over port 389 using SASL/GSSAPI with our Kerberos infrastructure.
When a client connects using SASL/GSSAPI, how should they connect to be sure that…

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Posfix: SASL authentication failed (unbuntu/office 365)
I'm unable to get postfix to work with our office 365 mail.
here's the main.cf file:
smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Ubuntu)
biff = no
append_dot_mydomain = no
readme_directory =…

Clinton Gorman
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saslauthd running in segfault after some time
I'm using postfix with courier and mysql for authentication.
Lately I have some segmentation faults, which causes sasl deamon to crash. It seems, the have something to do with dictionary attacks on my mail server. In the log files, I got segfault…

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Fail2ban bans me after sending successful 5 mails
Dear all I am using Fail2Ban v0.8.13 on CentOS 6 system in order to protect my Postfix servers. Basically it works so after 5 wrong login attempts on SMTP I get banned.
Fail2Ban Jail conf
[sasl-iptables]
enabled = true
filter = sasl
backend …

megloff
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Users allowed to send mail using postfix
I've installed postfix and opendkim on my ubuntu server, intending to use this server as a private relay for an application to send "activation" emails to new users. I configured SASL authentication with dovecot-commons to protect it.
I did a test…

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Authnetication failure with postfix and sasl using sasldb
I'm really not sure what my issue is. I've checked several guides, and I am sure I have set this up correctly, including config fails, restarting the service, permissions etc. OS is Ubuntu Server.
When testing with testsaslauthd -u…

John Sanders
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Postfix E-Mail transfer doesn`t work - SASL Authentification failed
I want to use the postfix MTA to send E-mails from my Nagios monitoring system to the contacts. However, i get the follwing error, if a mail will be send
May 28 16:20:29 op5-system postfix/qmgr[1932]: EFF031FFE36: from=,…
user289726
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Mongodb + Kerberos BadValue SASL mechanism GSSAPI is not supported
I am trying to run an instance of mongodb with the authentication mechanism GSS-API. This is the command:
mongod --dbpath /home/ec2-user/db/node2/data --auth --setParameter authenticationMechanisms=GSSAPI
And this is the error that I get:
F…

Adrian
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SASL severity 2 password verification failed
I have PHP Memcached running I have binary turned on (both memcached process & php) I am using Memcached::setSaslAuthData Using Ubuntu 14.04
SASL is enabled I just continually get:
mech: ``PLAIN'' with 46 bytes of data SASL (severity 2): Password…