Bug#299743: exim4: Only try configured mechs in cyrus_sasl authenticator

[Marc Haber]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 05:16:44AM +0100, Juergen Kreileder wrote:
> I've configured cyrus_sasl like described in #299732, ie. I'm using
> three mechs: PLAIN, LOGIN and CRAM-MD5.
> 
> But something is trying to use OTP.  /var/log/auth.log get's flooded with:
> 
> ,----
> | Mar 16 04:33:47 server exim4: OTP unavailable because can't read/write key database /etc/opiekeys: No such file or directory
> | Mar 16 04:33:47 server last message repeated 2 times
> | Mar 16 04:41:17 server send-mail: OTP unavailable because can't read/write key database /etc/opiekeys: No such file or directory
> | Mar 16 04:41:17 server last message repeated 2 times
> `----
> 
> I think the authenticator should only try mechs which are actually
> specified in the configuration.

Can you run exim4 -d -bh a.b.c.d and try the authentication manually?
I'd like to see debug output. Also, it looks like the log entries are
not created by exim as exim doesn't use syslog, so its messages are
unlikely to show up in auth.log.

Greetings
Marc

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