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

[Marc Haber]

Hi,

this is Debian issue #299743, with its history available on
http://bugs.debian.org/299743. Some preliminary chit-chat about the
configuration being in use is in http://bugs.debian.org/299732.

Without having too much clue about SASL, I understand the reporter
that a SASL client is able to specify which mechanisms to use, and
exim doesn't specify that list, meaning that it uses "all", which can
clutter up the logs of the SASL server.

The issue report for #299743 has a patch. Please consider this patch.

Greetings
Marc

----- Forwarded message from Juergen Kreileder <jk@blackdown.de> -----

> From: Juergen Kreileder <jk@blackdown.de>
> Subject: exim4: Only try configured mechs in cyrus_sasl authenticator
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 05:16:44 +0100
> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux)
> 
> Package: exim4
> Version: 4.50-4
> Severity: normal
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
>         Juergen
> 
> -- 
> Juergen Kreileder, Blackdown Java-Linux Team
> http://blog.blackdown.de/
> 
> 

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