strange authentication error

Mark J. Lilback mark at lilback.com
Tue Dec 3 16:10:26 EST 2002


At 2:20 PM -0500 12/3/2002, Rob Siemborski wrote:
>I suspect you're trying to use one of the non plaintext mechanisms.
>
>What mechanisms are offered when you connect using imtest?

Digest-MD5. The transcript is below. If I add the line like you 
suggested, I still get the generic failure and the log message about 
failing to open the DB file.

Any other ideas?

Thanks.




mlilback at tcore$./imtest -u mailadmin localhost
S: * OK mail.rtlabs.com Cyrus IMAP4 v2.1.10 server ready
C: C01 CAPABILITY
S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ MAILBOX-REFERRALS 
NAMESPACE UIDPLUS ID NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN MULTIAPPEND 
SORT THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES IDLE STARTTLS 
AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 AUTH=CRAM-MD5
S: C01 OK Completed
C: A01 AUTHENTICATE DIGEST-MD5
S: + 
bm9uY2U9Ik1YRjdrR3hnVURNUG0zTDNTdFF5UnVDVlRGRDYxRU1QUWtaWW0vSmxZTTQ9IixyZWFsbT0ibWFpbC5ydGxhYnMuY29tIixxb3A9ImF1dGgsYXV0aC1pbnQsYXV0aC1jb25mIixjaXBoZXI9InJjNC00MCxyYzQtNTYscmM0IixtYXhidWY9NDA5NixjaGFyc2V0PXV0Zi04LGFsZ29yaXRobT1tZDUtc2Vzcw==
Please enter your password:
C: 
dXNlcm5hbWU9Im1saWxiYWNrIixyZWFsbT0ibWFpbC5ydGxhYnMuY29tIixhdXRoemlkPSJtYWlsYWRtaW4iLG5vbmNlPSJNWEY3a0d4Z1VETVBtM0wzU3RReVJ1Q1ZURkQ2MUVNUFFrWlltL0psWU00PSIsY25vbmNlPSJSbXlDNldIZE55d3RVU29ZajBOSDBVUUFHYURLbkRSdnlOZUhUdHNNSFV3PSIsbmM9MDAwMDAwMDEscW9wPWF1dGgtY29uZixjaXBoZXI9InJjNCIsbWF4YnVmPTEwMjQsZGlnZXN0LXVyaT0iaW1hcC9sb2NhbGhvc3QiLHJlc3BvbnNlPTFmYzJkODc4NGRmOGYxOTY4YjkwYzA1NjcyZGVhYWNj
S: A01 NO user not found
Authentication failed. generic failure
Security strength factor: 128


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