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<p>Hello everybody,</p>
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<p>I configured cyrus imapd on a Opensuse 11 machine following the recommedation in a README file. Now I discovered the following - for me odd behavior - which might depend on a "misconfiguration".</p>
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<p>/etc/imap.conf:</p>
<p>sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd<br></p>
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<p>/etc/sysconfig/saslauthd:</p>
<p>SASLAUTHD_AUTHMECH=pam</p>
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<p>If a user logs into cyrus (I used mtest from uw-imap because of it's debug messages) it takes 4 trials (3 with CRAM-MD5 and a final with plain password) before the login succeeds.</p>
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<p>By chance I've found a tutorial which recommends adding a user to sasldb2. I tried that and without any additional changes to the configuration the first login attempt succeeds.</p>
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<p>I wonder if someone could tell me</p>
<p>1. Why did it take 4 attempts using the system credentials</p>
<p>2. Why did it succeed with one attempts after a user with the same username and different password was added to sasldb2</p>
<p>3. Why did the sasldb2 approach succedd at all without any configuration changes.</p>
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<p>Your help is appreciated.</p>
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<p>Best Regards,</p>
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<p>Oliver Block</p>
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