Re: Cyrus authentication failed

From: Andreas Winkelmann (no email)
Date: Tue Oct 03 2006 - 04:29:34 EDT

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    Am Tuesday 03 October 2006 00:06 schrieb :

    > My imapd.conf is:
    >
    > configdirectory: /var/lib/imap
    > partition-default: /var/spool/imap
    > sievedir: /var/lib/sieve
    > admins: cyrus
    > allowanonymouslogin: no
    > autocreatequota: 10000
    > reject8bit: no
    > quotawarn: 90
    > timeout: 30
    > poptimeout: 10
    > dracinterval: 0
    > drachost: localhost
    > sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
    > lmtp_overquota_perm_failure: no
    > lmtp_downcase_rcpt: yes

    sasl_mech_list: plain login

    is missing. Then test again with cyrus and "other" users. Do "other" users
    work anymore?

    Then show how you start saslauthd.

    > I think I understand what you mean, but I've always used saspasswd2 -c
    > username, where username is an existing linux user, to create account for
    > Cyrus and it has always worked.
    >
    > Stefano C.
    >
    > > Am Monday 02 October 2006 18:36 schrieb :
    > >> I was trying to make some test over backing up and recovery a simple
    > >> IMAP
    > >> server inside a LAN.
    > >> First I have uninstalled cyrus-imapd and cyrus-sasl-saslathd RPMs from
    > >> my
    > >> SuSE 10.1.
    > >>
    > >> Second I've deleted cyrus user from my system.
    > >>
    > >> I overrided the folowing directories:
    > >> /var/spool/imap
    > >> /var/lib/imap
    > >> /var/lib/sieve
    > >> with the ones of te system I would recover.
    > >>
    > >> Then I've created a plaintext backup of mailboxes.db using (as root):
    > >> su -cyrus -c "ctl_mailboxlist -d" > mailboxlist.txt
    > >>
    > >> I've build a database from the plaintext using:
    > >> cvt_cyrusdb mailboxlist.txt
    > >>
    > >> Now I can connect to Cyrus with:
    > >> telnet localhost 143
    > >> as every user listed with:
    > >> sasldblistusers
    > >> except as cyrus.

    > >> My server IMAP can receive mails from inside and outside the LAN.
    > >> Anyway, it's unconfortable I receive:
    > >> 0: NO "authentication failed"
    > >>
    > >> for the command:
    > >> testsaslauthd -u cyrus -p cyrus
    > >
    > > Above you tell something about sasldb, here you test with saslauthd. How
    > > did
    > > you configure saslauthd? Is it really configured to use sasldb?
    > >
    > > Show your imapd.conf.

    -- 
    	Andreas
    ----
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