SASL LDAP authentication failure

Question

Trying to use SASL AND LDAP to authenticate user in RedHat Linux. So far I\'ve setup the saslauthd service and its up and

Answer 1

After 5 days of struggle found out that the settings i used was for Active directory where i should be using settings for LDAP as following:

ldap_servers: ldaps://test.ldap.server:1234
ldap_search_base: Ou=PeopleAuthSrch,DC=abc,DC=com
ldap_filters: (uid=%u)
ldap_tls_cacert_file: /path/to/my/certificate

I did install cyrus-sasl-md5 as Bertold Kolics mentioned, i'm not sure if that played the part on authenticating the user.