Authentification issue

[Andreas Winkelmann]

Am Tuesday 26 September 2006 18:41 schrieb Gilles Foucault:

> My cyrus imap server have some troubles with authentification.
>
> This problem occured recently, altough cyrus worked like a charm for
> several months.
>
> Here follows few lines of the auth.log file :
>
> Sep 26 18:37:25 weg38-2-82-233-114-223 cyrus/imapd[12292]: can't
> access srvtab file /etc/srvtab: No such file or directory
> Sep 26 18:37:25 weg38-2-82-233-114-223 cyrus/imapd[12292]: server
> add_plugin entry_point error generic failure
> Sep 26 18:37:25 weg38-2-82-233-114-223 cyrus/imapd[12292]:
> _sasl_plugin_load failed on sasl_server_plug_init for plugin:
> kerberos4
> Sep 26 18:37:25 weg38-2-82-233-114-223 saslauthd[8220]: do_auth
>
>  : auth failure: [user=gilles] [service=imap] [realm=] [mech=sasldb]
>
> [reason=Unknown]
> Sep 26 18:37:25 weg38-2-82-233-114-223 cyrus/imapd[12292]: Password
> verification failed
> Sep 26 18:37:28 weg38-2-82-233-114-223 saslauthd[8220]: do_auth
>
>  : auth failure: [user=gilles] [service=imap] [realm=] [mech=sasldb]
>
> [reason=Unknown]
>
> Have you any idea about the problem ?

How should we help, without knowing which Backend do you want to use for 
Authentication?

In the Log above are Errors regarding Kerberos, saslauthd and sasldb (which is 
used from saslauthd? Strange).

Show your Configuration, at least imapd.conf.

-- 
	Andreas