[rhn-users] saslpasswd:generic failure

["Simon Burchnall" <simon burchnall microxchange co uk>]

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Redhat Linux 9

Any ideas why I am unable to create the sasldb database?

 

every time I issue the command:  saslpasswd -c u- [domain] -a smtpauth [dummy]  I get a 'generic failure' after entering the password twice

I am aware that this is meant to happen the first time that the command is run, but the database is never created.

 

the message log is full of errors as follows:

 

16 13:14:12 mail saslpasswd: error updating sasldb:

16 13:14:12 mail saslpasswd: CRAM-MD5: failed to set secret for dummy: generic failure
Jul 16 13:14:13 mail saslpasswd: error fetching from sasldb: Invalid argument
Jul 16 13:14:17 mail last message repeated 2 times
Jul 16 13:14:17 mail saslpasswd: failed to set plaintext secret for dummy: generic failure
Jul 16 13:14:17 mail saslpasswd: PLAIN: failed to set secret for dummy:

 

any ideas would be greatly appreciated

 

thanks

 

Simon