Bug#398534: sasl2-bin: Unable to authenticate after upgrading from 2.1.19.dfsg1-0.5 to latest release

[Laurent CARON]

Package: sasl2-bin
Version: 2.1.22.dfsg1-2
Severity: important


After upgrading that package, I get the following errors in my mail.log
when trying to authenticate for sending mails (using postfix).

Nov 14 10:43:16 gw postfix/smtpd[3596]: connect from mailclient[ipOFmailCLIENT] 
Nov 14 10:43:17 gw postfix/smtpd[3596]: warning: SASL authentication problem: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: Permission denied 
Nov 14 10:43:17 gw postfix/smtpd[3596]: warning: SASL authentication problem: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: Permission denied 
Nov 14 10:43:17 gw postfix/smtpd[3596]: warning: SASL authentication failure: no secret in database 
Nov 14 10:43:17 gw postfix/smtpd[3596]: warning: mailclient[ipOFmailCLIENT] SASL CRAM-MD5 authentication failed: authentication failure 
Nov 14 10:43:17 gw postfix/smtpd[3596]: warning: SASL authentication problem: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: Permission denied 
Nov 14 10:43:17 gw postfix/smtpd[3596]: warning: SASL authentication problem: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: Permission denied 
Nov 14 10:43:17 gw postfix/smtpd[3596]: warning: SASL authentication failure: no secret in database 
Nov 14 10:43:17 gw postfix/smtpd[3596]: warning: mailclient[ipOFmailCLIENT] SASL NTLM authentication failed: authentication failure 
Nov 14 10:43:17 gw postfix/smtpd[3596]: warning: SASL authentication problem: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: Permission denied 
Nov 14 10:43:17 gw postfix/smtpd[3596]: warning: SASL authentication problem: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: Permission denied 
Nov 14 10:43:17 gw postfix/smtpd[3596]: warning: SASL authentication problem: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: Permission denied 
Nov 14 10:43:17 gw postfix/smtpd[3596]: warning: SASL authentication problem: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: Permission denied 
Nov 14 10:43:17 gw postfix/smtpd[3596]: warning: SASL authentication problem: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: Permission denied 
Nov 14 10:43:17 gw postfix/smtpd[3596]: warning: SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed 
Nov 14 10:43:17 gw postfix/smtpd[3596]: warning: mailclient[ipOFmailCLIENT] SASL PLAIN authentication failed: authentication failure 
Nov 14 10:43:48 gw postfix/smtpd[3596]: warning: SASL authentication problem: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: Permission denied 
Nov 14 10:43:48 gw postfix/smtpd[3596]: warning: SASL authentication problem: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: Permission denied 
Nov 14 10:43:48 gw postfix/smtpd[3596]: warning: SASL authentication problem: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: Permission denied 
Nov 14 10:43:48 gw postfix/smtpd[3596]: warning: SASL authentication problem: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: Permission denied 
Nov 14 10:43:48 gw postfix/smtpd[3596]: warning: SASL authentication problem: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: Permission denied 
Nov 14 10:43:48 gw postfix/smtpd[3596]: warning: SASL authentication problem: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: Permission denied 
Nov 14 10:43:48 gw postfix/smtpd[3596]: warning: mailclient[ipOFmailCLIENT] SASL LOGIN authentication failed: authentication failure 
Nov 14 10:44:05 gw postfix/smtpd[3596]: lost connection after AUTH from mailclient[ipOFmailCLIENT] 
Nov 14 10:44:05 gw postfix/smtpd[3596]: disconnect from mailclient[ipOFmailCLIENT] 



/etc/default/saslauthd contains:
START=yes
MECHANISMS="pam"
MECH_OPTIONS="
THREADS=5
OPTIONS="-c -m /var/run/saslauthd"



Downgrading to the previous version solves the problem.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-a7n-20061026-v3
Locale: LANG=fr_FR at euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages sasl2-bin depends on:
hi  libc6    2.3.6.ds1-8                     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcomer 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.10.02+dfsg-2 common error description library
ii  libdb4.2 4.2.52+dfsg-1                   Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [
ii  libkrb53 1.4.4-4                         MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
hi  libldap2 2.1.30-13+b1                    OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g 0.79-4                          Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libsasl2 2.1.22.dfsg1-2                  Authentication abstraction library
ii  libssl0. 0.9.8c-3                        SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base 3.1-19                          Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip

sasl2-bin recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information