trouble with auths on cyrus imap

[Ken Murchison]

jonathan giles wrote:
> 
> Hi:
> 
> I have been looking around for the answer to this, and have not found
> it.
> 
> I am running...
> 4.7-RELEASE FreeBSD
> with...
> 
> cyrus-imapd-2.1.10
> cyrus-sasl-2.1.9_1
> 
> installed as ports.
> 
> Compilation and installation seems fine but...
> 
> I trying to authenticate with the standard shadow password, but keep
> getting this in the log...
> 
> Jan  7 14:20:10 popper2 saslauthd[113]: AUTHFAIL: user=user service=imap
> realm= [PAM auth error]
> 
> Jan  7 14:20:10 popper2 imapd[158]: badlogin:
> localhost.clinedavis.com[127.0.0.1] plaintext user SASL(-13):
> authentication failure: checkpass failed
> 
> imapd.conf includes the following...
> sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
> 
> saslauthd is started using -a pam in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/saslauthd.sh
> I checked the processes, and it shows up.
> 
> /etc/pam.conf is standard conf for FreeBSD
> with only one line for imap...
> imap    auth    required        pam_unix.so       try_first_pass


try adding:

imap	account		sufficient	pam_permit.so

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