"Can't locate loadable" Perl module when running cyradm

Fri May 22 01:00:06 EDT 2015

I also had to update /etc/default/saslauthd, and set:

START=yes                             #default was no
MECHANISM="sasldb"           #default was "pam"

Then rebooting got me saslauthd running by default.

I then start up cyrus, and can use something like:
   /path/to/cyrus/bin/imtest -a ellie -m login -p imap localhost
to verify that login to the cyrus server works with the sasl credentials
created earlier.

For whatever reason, manually invoking "sudo /etc/init.d/saslauthd
start" would report success but wouldn't actually start the service (no
saslauthd processes running).  The comments in the file above state that
"START=yes" is only required to start the service automatically on
startup (implying that "no" is ok if you intend to start it by hand),
but in my experimentation it seems like it's required for the service to
start at all (at least if you're using the init.d script).

I still haven't had to change any permissions on /var/run/saslauthd

On Fri, May 22, 2015, at 10:05 AM, ellie timoney wrote:
> Sorry for late response, I've been away from the office and therefore
> away from my dev machine.
> 
> > I installed "saslpasswd2" with:
> >     sudo apt-get install sasl2-bin
> 
> Yep
> 
> > I launched the saslauth daemon with the following command:
> >     sudo -g sasl saslauthd -a sasldb -d -m /var/run/saslauthd/ -V
> > 
> 
> The usual way on Debian/Ubuntu and similar would be:
>     sudo /etc/init.d/saslauthd start
> 
> (I think RedHat/Fedora/CentOS/etc use something like "sudo service
> saslauthd start")
> 
> > I setup a user with:
> >     sudo saslpasswd2 -c conradk
> > 
> > I tested that the user was OK with:
> >     sudo testsaslauthd -u conradk -p secret_password
> 
> Yep
> 
> > I gave access to saslauthd to Cyrus with (I recommend not setting these
> > permissions in production unless you are sure you know the implications,
> > I don't, but this is for local development on my machine):
> >     sudo usermod -aG sasl cyrus
> >     sudo usermod -aG sasl conradk
> >     sudo setfacl -dRm g:sasl:rwx /var/run/saslauthd
> >     sudo setfacl -Rm  g:sasl:rwx /var/run/saslauthd
> >     sudo setfacl -dRm g:mail:rwx /var/run/saslauthd
> >     sudo setfacl -Rm  g:mail:rwx /var/run/saslauthd
> >     sudo setfacl -dRm u:cyrus:rwx /var/run/saslauthd
> >     sudo setfacl -Rm u:cyrus:rwx /var/run/saslauthd
> >     sudo setfacl -dRm u:conradk:rwx /var/run/saslauthd
> >     sudo setfacl -Rm u:conradk:rwx /var/run/saslauthd
> 
> I haven't had to do most of this when installing the entire stack
> (cyrus, sasl, and so on) from apt packages, only needed to add cyrus
> user to the sasl group (makes sense - I would expect all the apt
> packages to be mutually configured to cooperate out of the box).  But I
> haven't got an environment build from cyrus source running correctly
> yet, so I'll see if this helps.
> 
> > For completeness, here's my /etc/imapd.conf file:
> >     configdirectory: /home/conradk/.cyrus-server/var/imap
> >     partition-default: /home/conradk/.cyrus-server/var/spool/imap
> >     admins: conradk
> >     sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
> >     allowplaintext: yes
> 
> >From what I've seen it's "preferable" to use:
>    sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop
>    sasl_auxprop_plugin: sasldb
> 
> rather than:
>   sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
> 
> ... though I'm not sure of the ramifications of either.
> 
> On Tue, May 19, 2015, at 08:58 AM, Conrad Kleinespel wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have finally got cyradm to connect to the Cyrus server through SASL.
> > I'm documenting what I did for convenience and so it's written
> > somewhere. Maybe it can help others.
> > 
> > I installed "saslpasswd2" with:
> >     sudo apt-get install sasl2-bin
> > 
> > I launched the saslauth daemon with the following command:
> >     sudo -g sasl saslauthd -a sasldb -d -m /var/run/saslauthd/ -V
> > 
> > I setup a user with:
> >     sudo saslpasswd2 -c conradk
> > 
> > I tested that the user was OK with:
> >     sudo testsaslauthd -u conradk -p secret_password
> > 
> > I gave access to saslauthd to Cyrus with (I recommend not setting these
> > permissions in production unless you are sure you know the implications,
> > I don't, but this is for local development on my machine):
> >     sudo usermod -aG sasl cyrus
> >     sudo usermod -aG sasl conradk
> >     sudo setfacl -dRm g:sasl:rwx /var/run/saslauthd
> >     sudo setfacl -Rm  g:sasl:rwx /var/run/saslauthd
> >     sudo setfacl -dRm g:mail:rwx /var/run/saslauthd
> >     sudo setfacl -Rm  g:mail:rwx /var/run/saslauthd
> >     sudo setfacl -dRm u:cyrus:rwx /var/run/saslauthd
> >     sudo setfacl -Rm u:cyrus:rwx /var/run/saslauthd
> >     sudo setfacl -dRm u:conradk:rwx /var/run/saslauthd
> >     sudo setfacl -Rm u:conradk:rwx /var/run/saslauthd
> > 
> > Then, something like this should work (note I execute the command as the
> > "cyrus" user):
> >     sudo -u cyrus testsaslauthd -u cyrus -p secret_password
> > 
> > I connected to Cyrus with cyradm from within Docker like this:
> >     cyradm --user cyrus --notls --auth PLAIN $docker_host_ip
> > 
> > For completeness, here's my /etc/imapd.conf file:
> >     configdirectory: /home/conradk/.cyrus-server/var/imap
> >     partition-default: /home/conradk/.cyrus-server/var/spool/imap
> >     admins: conradk
> >     sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
> >     allowplaintext: yes
> > 
> > Note that I set "allowplaintext" to "yes" and "sasl_pwcheck_method" is
> > set to "saslauthd", which is what I'm using in the examples above.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > 
> > Conrad Kleinespel
> > conradk at conradk.com
> > +33 6 23 82 42 79
> > 
> > On Mon, May 18, 2015, at 11:22 AM, Conrad Kleinespel wrote:
> > > Hello again,
> > > 
> > > I have not yet found a way to run "cyradm" directly on my machine. So I
> > > downloaded the Docker images (from
> > > https://git.cyrus.foundation/diffusion/ID/) and now I can run "cyradm"
> > > from within Docker. This seems to work as expected: I can connect to the
> > > Docker host from within a container.
> > > 
> > > However, when I run something like "cyradm --user conradk 172.17.42.1"
> > > (when the IP is the IMAP server's IP), "cyradm" requires a password.
> > > >From what I understand after some Google searches, I need to use a tool
> > > called "saslpasswd2" to set the password of my admin user. This tools is
> > > apparently not in the Docker image.
> > > 
> > > So I went to download Cyrus SASL (from
> > > https://git.cyrus.foundation/diffusion/S/). I followed the instructions
> > > from "doc/install.html" but when running "./configure", I get an error I
> > > don't understand:
> > > 
> > >     ./configure: line 5574: syntax error near unexpected token
> > >     `SASL_DB_LIB=""'
> > >     ./configure: line 5574: `SASL_DB_LIB=""'
> > > 
> > > I tried running "SASL_DB_LIB=`pwd`/sasldb ./configure" but that doesn't
> > > change anything.
> > > 
> > > If you know a way to make this work, I would be grateful for your help
> > > :-)
> > > 
> > > Best regards,
> > >  
> > > Conrad Kleinespel
> > > conradk at conradk.com
> > > +33 6 23 82 42 79
> > > 
> > > On Sun, May 17, 2015, at 05:11 PM, Conrad Kleinespel wrote:
> > > > I forgot to mention something in the steps to reproduce. Right after
> > > > cloning, I built Cyrus like so:
> > > > 
> > > >     autoreconf -s -i
> > > >     ./configure CFLAGS="-Wno-unused-parameter -g -O0 -Wall -Wextra
> > > >     -Werror" --enable-coverage --enable-http --enable-unit-tests
> > > >     --enable-replication --with-openssl=yes --enable-nntp
> > > >     --enable-murder --enable-idled --prefix=`pwd` --enable-sieve && make
> > > >     && make install
> > > >     make lex-fix
> > > >     make
> > > >     make install
> > > > 
> > > > Note that the "prefix" is set to the directory of the "master" branch.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks again for any help you can provide,
> > > > 
> > > > Best regards,
> > > > 
> > > > -- 
> > > > Conrad Kleinespel
> > > > conradk at conradk.com
> > > > +33 6 23 82 42 79
> > > > 
> > > > On Sun, May 17, 2015, at 05:00 PM, Conrad Kleinespel wrote:
> > > > > Hello everyone,
> > > > > 
> > > > > I'm setting up a Cyrus / Sendmail server. I wanted to create a mailbox,
> > > > > so I tried doing this with the "cyradm" tool. Unfortunately, I'm
> > > > > struggling with Perl errors, specifically:
> > > > > 
> > > > >     Can't locate loadable object for module Cyrus::IMAP in @INC (@INC
> > > > >     contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.20.2
> > > > >     /usr/local/share/perl/5.20.2 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.20
> > > > >     /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.20
> > > > >     /usr/share/perl/5.20 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .)
> > > > > 
> > > > > Steps to reproduce on my machine are:
> > > > > 
> > > > > - clone the cyrus-imapd "master" branch
> > > > > - change directory to "perl/imap/blib/lib/"
> > > > > - run this command: perl -e"use Cyrus::IMAP;"
> > > > > 
> > > > > I'm thinking this may be a missing library on my machine. But I have not
> > > > > yet found a way to know which one. The packages "Carp" and "IO::File"
> > > > > are both available. Cyrus builds fine and is running. I'm on Ubuntu
> > > > > Linux 15.04.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Would you know a way to get this to work ?
> > > > > 
> > > > > I appreciate you taking the time to read this and am grateful for any
> > > > > help / tips / hints :-)
> > > > > 
> > > > > -- 
> > > > > Conrad Kleinespel
> > > > > conradk at conradk.com
> > > > > +33 6 23 82 42 79