cyrus-imapd pop3 authentication

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mi, den 22.06.2005 schrieb Vijay Kumar um 17:23:

> I am running cyrus-imapd-2.2.10 on RHEL 4 system.

Update to the current update version of that package!

> We have created a user test with passwd test and we want to this user
> to receive email. 
> 
> When we do a “telnet <ip> 110 and then give the USER and PASS commands
> , we are notable to login using the user id and passwd. Error given is
> : -[ERR] AUTH Invalid Login. 
> 
>  
> 
> The logs show an error “unknown password identifier” 
> 
>  
> 
> Here’s the imapd.conf  file : 
> 
>  
> 
> configdirectory: /var/lib/imap
> 
> partition-default: /var/spool/imap
> 
> admins: cyrus root
> 
> sievedir: /var/lib/imap/sieve
> 
> sendmail: /opt/postfix/sbin/sendmail
> 
> hashimapspool: true
> 
> sasl_pwcheck_method:passwd 

False, change that to "saslauthd"


> sasl_mech_list: PLAIN
> 
> tls_cert_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/cyrus-imapd.pem
> 
> tls_key_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/cyrus-imapd.pem
> 
> tls_ca_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt
> 
>  
> 
> I have tried replacing the sasl_pwcheck_method with shadow and unix
> keywords. 
> 
>  
> 
> How can we configure support for /etc/passwd file, so that the same
> can be checked ? 

Do above change and make sure saslauthd is running: service saslauthd
start; chkconfig saslauthd on. saslauthd is configured through
/etc/sysconfig/saslauthd.

> Do we need to create Maildir in every users home directory ? 

No, Cyrus-IMAPd has his own central mail storage.

> Vijay. 

Alexander


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