From: Ken Murchison (no email)
Date: Sun Feb 01 2004 - 13:46:40 EST
Emma Grant wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> I ended up fixing the error by adding "account required
> /lib/security/pam_permit.so" at the top of my pop file in pam.d/pop
>
> I first tried pam_warn.so, and that told me that my account had expired,
> and since the really is no system account - email is virtual - I figured
> that is why it was giving the error. After adding pam_permit I have had
> no more auth errors.
>
> But now I am getting the error:
>
> -ERR [SYS/PERM] Unable to locate maildrop
>
> any ideas?
The system can find the INBOX for the user that is logging in. You need
to create a mailbox named user.<username> for each user that will be
accessing mail via IMAP or POP.
>
> Testsaslauthd? Where would I find this on RH ES? Do I still need it now
> I am not getting auth errors?
No.
>
> Thanks,
> Emma
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> [mailto:] On Behalf Of Ken
> Murchison
> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 12:30 AM
> To: Emma Grant
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: PAM Authentication error...
>
> Emma Grant wrote:
>
>
>>Hi All,
>>
>>
>>
>>I am running Cyrus Imap 2.2.3 on RH ES 3.0 using MySQL 3.23.58 as my
>>database so I can use my mail server with virtual domains (maildir).
>>
>>
>>
>>I believe that I have configured everything correctly except I am
>>getting the error below when I check pop3 email:
>>
>>
>>
>>do_auth : auth failure: [user=] [service=pop]
>>[realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error]
>>
>>pop3[28753]: badlogin: my.ipaddress.location.etc plaintext
>> SASL(-13): authentication failure: checkpass failed
>
>
> Compile the testsaslauthd program in the SASL distro, and make sure that
>
> you can authenticate before moving on to Cyrus.
>
-- Kenneth Murchison Oceana Matrix Ltd. Software Engineer 21 Princeton Place 716-662-8973 x26 Orchard Park, NY 14127 --PGP Public Key-- http://www.oceana.com/~ken/ksm.pgp
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