fix: return underlying sasl error message

broker.go

@@ -1167,7 +1167,7 @@ func (b *Broker) sendAndReceiveSASLHandshake(saslType SASLMechanism, version int
 		return res.Err
 	}
 
-	DebugLogger.Print("Successful SASL handshake. Available mechanisms: ", res.EnabledMechanisms)
+	DebugLogger.Print("Completed pre-auth SASL handshake. Available mechanisms: ", res.EnabledMechanisms)
 	return nil
 }
 
@@ -1268,7 +1268,9 @@ func (b *Broker) sendAndReceiveV1SASLPlainAuth() error {
 
 	// With v1 sasl we get an error message set in the response we can return
 	if err != nil {
-		Logger.Printf("Error returned from broker during SASL flow %s: %s\n", b.addr, err.Error())
+		Logger.Printf(
+			"Error returned from broker %s during SASL authentication: %v\n",
+			b.addr, err.Error())
 		return err
 	}
 
@@ -1579,7 +1581,11 @@ func (b *Broker) receiveSASLServerResponse(res *SaslAuthenticateResponse, correl
 	}
 
 	if !errors.Is(res.Err, ErrNoError) {
-		return bytesRead, res.Err
+		var err error = res.Err
+		if res.ErrorMessage != nil {
+			err = Wrap(res.Err, errors.New(*res.ErrorMessage))
+		}
+		return bytesRead, err
 	}
 
 	return bytesRead, nil

errors.go

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package sarama
 import (
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
+	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/hashicorp/go-multierror"
 )
@@ -63,8 +64,23 @@ var ErrReassignPartitions = errors.New("failed to reassign partitions for topic"
 // ErrDeleteRecords is the type of error returned when fail to delete the required records
 var ErrDeleteRecords = errors.New("kafka server: failed to delete records")
 
-// The formatter used to format multierrors
-var MultiErrorFormat multierror.ErrorFormatFunc
+// MultiErrorFormat specifies the formatter applied to format multierrors. The
+// default implementation is a consensed version of the hashicorp/go-multierror
+// default one
+var MultiErrorFormat multierror.ErrorFormatFunc = func(es []error) string {
+	if len(es) == 1 {
+		return es[0].Error()
+	}
+
+	points := make([]string, len(es))
+	for i, err := range es {
+		points[i] = fmt.Sprintf("* %s", err)
+	}
+
+	return fmt.Sprintf(
+		"%d errors occurred:\n\t%s\n",
+		len(es), strings.Join(points, "\n\t"))
+}
 
 type sentinelError struct {
 	sentinel error

errors_test.go

@@ -7,12 +7,12 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 )
 
-func TestSentinelWithWrappedError(t *testing.T) {
+func TestSentinelWithSingleWrappedError(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 	myNetError := &net.OpError{Op: "mock", Err: errors.New("op error")}
 	error := Wrap(ErrOutOfBrokers, myNetError)
 
-	expected := fmt.Sprintf("%s: 1 error occurred:\n\t* %s\n\n", ErrOutOfBrokers, myNetError)
+	expected := fmt.Sprintf("%s: %s", ErrOutOfBrokers, myNetError)
 	actual := error.Error()
 	if actual != expected {
 		t.Errorf("unexpected value '%s' vs '%v'", expected, actual)