Re: ldapdb troubleshooting

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Dr. Lars Hanke wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> well, I compiled the ldapdb auxprop in order to have a couple of services to 
> authenticate with the LDAP repository. I started with imap and immediately 
> ran into trouble. This is what imtest wrote to auth.log:
>
> Mar 13 17:57:28 localhost saslpasswd2: _sasl_plugin_load failed on 
> sasl_auxprop_plug_init for plugin: ldapdb
> Mar 13 17:57:28 localhost saslpasswd2: auxpropfunc error invalid parameter 
> supplied
>
> What does this want to tell me? Is there a resonable approach to set up a test 
> suite?
>
> Some details about the configuration:
>
> I put up a config: cat /usr/lib/sasl2/imapd.conf
> pwcheck_method: auxprop
> auxprop_plugin: ldapdb
> ldapdb_uri: ldaps://adept.mgr
> ldapdb_id: mailadmin
> ldapdb_pw: ********
> ldapdb_mech: DIGEST-MD5
> However, slapd does not report anythig, i.e. the error occurs before LDAP is 
> contacted.
I vaguely recall that Cyrus imapd is weird in its config file parsing. 
Try prefixing the ldapdb directives with "sasl_". Sorry I don't remember 
enough of the details to be clearer.

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