Re: Sieve Authentication Fails - Resolved

From: Simon Matter (no email)
Date: Fri Feb 04 2005 - 17:54:06 EST

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    > OK, I'm not sure why this works, but if I su to the unix account which
    > matches the mailbox name of the mailbox I'm trying to run sieveshell
    > for....
    > and it works just fine. I had assumed I could be running as root, or
    > another account I use to manage stuff.... and just pass in the username
    > with
    > a -u parameter.

    I just tried it and it worked this way (as root):
    sieveshell --user=simix --authname=simix localhost

    Simon

    >
    > I only tried this because I installed the avelsieve squirrelmail plugin.
    > Once installed, the plugin worked fine, so I knew authentication worked
    > with
    > sieve. That's when it occurred to me to actually su to that unix account,
    > and re-run sieveshell.
    >
    > Thanks for the help guys. Appreciate it.
    > Dan
    >
    >
    >>From: Igor Brezac <>
    >>To: Dan Perez <>
    >>CC:
    >>Subject: Re: Sieve Authentication Fails
    >>Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 14:30:07 -0500 (EST)
    >>
    >>
    >>On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Dan Perez wrote:
    >>
    >>>>
    >>>>It has --authname and it works fine. Check man pages.
    >>>>Igor
    >>>>---
    >>>
    >>>Sorry, unless I'm misunderstanding something... that's not it.
    >>> According
    >>>to the man pages --authname let's you pass in a different username for
    >>>authentication, it doesn't let you specify a mechanism...
    >>>
    >>
    >>You are correct, you cannot pass a mechanism to sieveshell. I
    >> incorrectly
    >>assumed that --auth in cyradm is an authentication username.
    >>
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    >>Igor
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