cyradm: cannot authenticate to server

[brian]

brian wrote:
> I'm attempting to move from one server to another and have begun 
> replicating the set-up on the new box but am running into problems. I 
> want to set up authentication through sasldb and TLS (though the TLS 
> postfix stuff is all commented out for now).
> 
> I'm trying to set up authentication through sasldb2. I have assigned a 
> both system and saslpasswd2 passwords to the cyrus user. When i su - 
> cyrus from root and try:
> 
> cyradm --user cyrus --server localhost
> 
> I'm prompted for both "password" and "IMAP password". I guessed the 
> first is the system one so used that first, then the one assigned using 
> saslpasswd2. I see the following:
> 
> Login failed: authentication failure at 
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/Cyrus/IMAP/Admin.pm 
> line 119
> cyradm: cannot authenticate to server with  as cyrus


~sigh~ never mind, please. The cyrus user was missing from the sasldb2 
file. I'd copied it over from the other server, loaded cyrus into it, 
then replaced it with the original.

It's been a long afternoon.