Disconnected (Authentication Failure) in Linux

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G’'day.

I have GAIM running on PC (Windows XP and 2000) workstations/terminal clients and have zero problems. I also have GAIM running on a Linux (Fedora 4) system that worked just fine for a user until a little while ago. Now, when I try to connect as the user, I get an error message that says

Authentication failure

On the Wildfire server (ver 2.5.1), under the “warn” tab of the log feature, I see the following:

2006.04.26 12:31:58 SaslException

javax.security.sasl.SaslException: DIGEST-MD5: digest response format violation. Mismatched response.

at com.sun.security.sasl.digest.DigestMD5Server.validateClientResponse(Unknown Source)

at com.sun.security.sasl.digest.DigestMD5Server.evaluateResponse(Unknown Source)

at org.jivesoftware.wildfire.net.SASLAuthentication.doHandshake(SASLAuthentication .java:204)

at org.jivesoftware.wildfire.net.SocketReader.authenticateClient(SocketReader.java :317)

at org.jivesoftware.wildfire.net.SocketReader.readStream(SocketReader.java:278)

at org.jivesoftware.wildfire.net.SocketReader.run(SocketReader.java:119)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

I’'ve seen others with similar problems, but have not read of a solution. What can I check for to get this user back on the internal Jabber network?

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Did you happen to upgrade the SASL libraries on the Linux box? I saw there were some updates recently to the cyrus-sasl2 DIGEST-MD5 libraries, but I dont know if Gaim is using them in your case. There might be some incompatability with one of the versions.

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Updates to SASL libraries? Not that I’‘m aware. But I’'ll double-check… Anything else I can/should be looking for?

Message was edited by: hackl

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I would check all other updates to your system. Something changed, things like this dont “just happen” . It might not be on the Client side, maybe something on the server got updated and now things are incompatable.