problems with clients and cyrus-sasl-2.1.22

Andreas Hasenack ahasenack at terra.com.br
Wed May 24 21:16:05 EDT 2006


On Tuesday 23 May 2006 19:50, Huaqing Zheng wrote:
> I'm having some problems with clients linked against Cyrus SASL
> 2.1.22.  Running imtest linked against 2.1.22 against an cyrus-imapd
> server (also linked against 2.1.22) with GSSAPI authentication shows:
>
> C: A01 AUTHENTICATE GSSAPI BLAHBLAHBLAH
> S: + BLAHBLAHBLAH
> Authentication failed. generic failure
> Security strength factor: 0

I just found out I'm having the same exact problem, but not will all clients: 
just cyrus' own clients such as imtest.

> and this in the imap logs:
> May 23 15:48:01 pobox09 imap[26261]: badlogin: pobox09.stanford.edu
> [171.67.22.15] GSSAPI [SASL(0): successful result: security flags do
> not match required]
>
> Same happens with Kerberos 4.  PLAIN and LOGIN both work fine, which
> indicates that saslauthd is running fine against GSSAPI.  Note that
> running the 2.1.22 client against a 2.1.21 server gives the same thing
> whereas running the 2.1.21 client against the 2.1.22 server is working
> fine.

I tried gssapi, digest-md5 and cram-md5,  none work. Login (both imap login 
and sasl login) and plain do work.


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