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On 24-Aug-14 0:07, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On 23/08/2014 21:21, Jarry wrote: |
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>> Hi Gentoo-users, |
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>> after playing with PAM for a few days I discovered one strange |
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>> thing: PAM adds ".db" suffix to database definition on its own! |
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>> What I mean is following: |
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>> more /etc/pam.d/postfix |
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>> auth required pam_userdb.so db=/etc/postfix/virtual_users.db |
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>> account required pam_userdb.so db=/etc/postfix/virtual_users.db |
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>> |
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>> ls -l /etc/postfix/virtual_users.db |
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>> -rw------- 1 root root 12288 Aug 20 18:45 /etc/postfix/virtual_users.db |
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>> |
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>> testsaslauthd -u user1 -p password1 -s postfix |
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>> 0: NO "authentication failed" |
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>> |
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>> tail -n1 saslauth.log |
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>> saslauthd: pam_userdb(postfix:auth): user_lookup: could not open |
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>> database '/etc/postfix/virtual_users.db': no such file or directory |
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>> ______________________ |
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>> Then I changed /etc/pam.d/postfix to: |
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>> auth required pam_userdb.so db=/etc/postfix/virtual_users |
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>> account required pam_userdb.so db=/etc/postfix/virtual_users |
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>> And now everything works. But there is no /etc/postfix/virtual_users |
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>> file, only /etc/postfix/virtual_users.db! |
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>> So it seems to me PAM adds ".db" to database-definition itself |
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>> and user has to define it without ".db", otherwise what PAM is |
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>> actually looking for is /etc/postfix/virtual_users.db.db |
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>> Is this normal? Never seen this "Windows-like" behaviour with |
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>> auto-adding suffix in *nix world. And I did not find anything |
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>> about it in PAM-documentation. It says just: |
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>> pam_userdb.so db=/path/database |
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>> Not a single word that user has to cut ".db" suffix from |
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>> "database" off. If all this is feature and not bug, then it |
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>> should definitely be mentioned somewhere... |
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> |
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> |
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> Consult Google and find out more about postfix's postmaps with |
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> particular reference to how it's done if you use db files from sleepycat |
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This has nothing to do with postfix, I used it just as |
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an example. I had the very same problem with ftp. |
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My Postfix uses cyrus-sasl for smtp-authentification, |
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and cyrus-sasl in my example uses pam with user-db. |
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Problem is PAM configuration, which must contain: |
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db=/etc/postfix/virtual_users (without ".db") |
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But real user database is in: |
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/etc/postfix/virtual_users.db |
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This I find very strange... |
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Jarry |
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