QPID-4757: C++ Broker report sasldb failures more clearly when problem may be a permission issue.

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/qpid/trunk@1470065 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/qpid/cpp/src/qpid/broker/SaslAuthenticator.cpp b/qpid/cpp/src/qpid/broker/SaslAuthenticator.cpp
index 8211657e04..7ab0f7f21d 100644
--- a/qpid/cpp/src/qpid/broker/SaslAuthenticator.cpp
+++ b/qpid/cpp/src/qpid/broker/SaslAuthenticator.cpp
@@ -469,6 +469,13 @@ void CyrusAuthenticator::processAuthenticationStep(int code, const char *challen
         std::string errordetail = sasl_errdetail(sasl_conn);
         if (!getUsername(uid)) {
             QPID_LOG(info, "SASL: Authentication failed (no username available yet):" << errordetail);
+        } else if (SASL_NOUSER == code) {
+            // SASL_NOUSER is returned when either:
+            // - the user name supplied was not in the sasl db or
+            // - the sasl db could not be read
+            //       - because of file permissions or
+            //       - because the file was not found
+            QPID_LOG(info, "SASL: Authentication failed. User not found or sasldb not accessible.(" << code << ") for " << uid);
         } else {
             QPID_LOG(info, "SASL: Authentication failed for " << uid << ":" << errordetail);
         }