SASL Authentication Problem

[mitrohin a.s.]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 09:49:10AM +0100, Dominik G?bl wrote:
> Hi everbody! 
> 
> I hope you can help me with this: 
> 
> I set up a test - mailserver with postfix, cyrus and cyrus-sasl. 
> Anything works just fine. The only thing which drives me mad is the 
> following: 
> 
> imapd.conf: 
> 
> configdirectory: /var/lib/imap 
> partition-default: /var/spool/imap 
> admins: cyrus 
> sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail 
> hashimapspool: true 
> unixhierarchysep: 1 
> virtdomains: userid 
> defaultdomain: example.com 
> 
> Whenever I try to logon to cyrus and use a adress in the machine's 
> realm/domain he automatically adds the hostname. For example I log on 
> as: "foo AT example.com" sasl tries to lookup the user "foo" and the realm 
> "mail.example.com". Not suprisingly I get a "Login failed". 
> This does not happen if I log on as "Foo AT otherdomain.com"
> 
> I searched the documentation up and down and didn't find anything. 
> Maybe I'm just ignoring some config-options. Anyway I would be glad if 
> someone could help me 
> 
afaik if log on as user in defaultdomain then (before user lookup) cyrus-imap
strip this defaultdomain and call sasl with username only. sasl dont get 
domain as parameter and use hostname as realm.

sorry for my english.

/swp