[Nottingham] Bug: Spurious sasl2 db errors for sasl2 auth password change

[Martin]

Folks,

Just a techie gotcha for anyone else playing with this...

If you're using a sasl2 db for a list of passwords, and you try changing
(or creating one) one with:

saslpasswd2
saslpasswd2 -c

you'll likely get a spurious error in your logs:

saslpasswd2: error deleting entry from sasldb: DB_NOTFOUND: No matching
key/data pair found


That proved to be a good wild goose chase! All the configs looked fine
and upon testing it seemed to all work fine also. I found the
explanation on:

http://www.irbs.net/internet/info-cyrus/0208/0492.html

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This is part of the SASLv1 -> SASLv2 migration code. It tries to remove
per-mech secrets after creating the generic userPassword plaintext secret.
When no older per-mech secrets exist, you get this message.

This message should probably be downgraded to LOG_WARN.
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Indeed so. The wording of the 'error' could certainly be improved to be
more meaningful!

It doesn't stop things working so as a bug, it is completely innocuous.
However, it certainly wastes human time on the wild goose chase...


Where to report that one? No clue other than to dump it onto a specific
distro maintainers... Wild guess to cyrus-bugs (cmu.edu)?


All on:

Linux 2.6.31.5-server-1mnb #1 SMP Fri Oct 23 01:19:00 EDT 2009 x86_64

saslpasswd2 -v

This product includes software developed by Computing Services
at Carnegie Mellon University (http://www.cmu.edu/computing/).

Built against SASL API version 2.1.23
LibSasl version 2.1.23 by "Cyrus SASL"



Cheers,
Martin

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Martin Lomas
martin at ml1.co.uk
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