badlogin problem

[Ken Murchison]

Danny Garcia Hernandez wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Ken Murchison wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > Danny Garcia Hernandez wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello List,
> > >
> > > "Comming back to cyrus-imapd instalation"
> > >
> > > I have cyrus-sasl-2.1.7 with cyrus-imap-2.1.5.
> > >
> > > The master process is working fine, without errors, but i can't login to
> > > the imapd server.
> > >
> > > My imapd.conf lines look  this:
> > >
> > > servername:     mail.danyeltech.com
> > > configdirectory: /var/imap
> > > partition-default: /var/spool/imap
> > > admins: cyrus root
> > > srvtab: /var/imap/srvtab
> > > allowanonymouslogin:    no
> > > sasl_passwd_check:      passwd
> >
> > If you want to auth against /etc/passwd, this should be:
> >
> > sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
> >
> >
> > And run 'saslauthd -a getpwent'
> >
> >
> > Read the SASLv2 documentation and manpages.
> >
> >
> Thank you Ken, but this setting dont'n work in my system. The error
> message continue( badlogin).
> 
> Can you tell me the most easy way or the simplest settings to allow imapd
> authenticate some users (using sasldb or maybe shadow?).

For sasldb, set 'sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop' in imapd.conf and use
'saslpasswd2' to add users.

For /etc/shadow, set 'sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd' in imapd.conf and
run 'saslauthd -a shadow'

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