Newbie help: Domain names as part of user names/mailboxes/etc?

[Jay Levitt]

> Try using saslauthd and see if that works for you.Put
>
> sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
> sasl_mech_list: PLAIN
>
> in /etc/imapd.conf and start saslauthd

Yep, that worked..

> You should then be able to log in using your unix system name and
> password. That should let you verify that cyrus imap is working properly
> and that you can get email.
>
> If that works I would delete /etc/sasldb2, recreate it and start fresh
> with one user name. I don't know why you could be having this problem
> unless you used the -u DOM option in saslpasswd2.

That also worked.  I don't get it, but it worked.  sasldblistusers2 output
looks exactly the same, but it worked.  Thanks.  When in doubt, delete
everything and try the exact same thing again to see if it works the second
time.  Nevermind definitions of insanity!

>
> Harris
>
>
> On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 14:06, Jay Levitt wrote:
> > > At least on my server, it doesn't matter. Even though sasldblistusers2
> > > shows me as harrisl at d8100.landgarten.local, I still sign in from
Outlook
> > > and Evolution as harrisl and my mailboxes which were created with
cyradm
> > > are in the form user.harrisl.inbox etc. Remember you still have to
> > > create user jay in cyradm even though you already created a password
for
> > > user jay in saslpassword2. The username that you set up in cyradm is
> > > what the imap server will know you as. Sasl will be used for
> > > authentication if you use auxprops in your config and you don't supply
> > > your domain when signing in. Try signing in with imtest -m login as
jay
> > > after creating a password for jay with saslpassword2 and you will see
> > > that it works.
> >
> > Not on my server... :(  That's how I started digging into the whole mess
in
> > the first place.  When sasldblistusers2 shows jay at linux.home.jay.fm, I
> > cannot login with imtest (or a real client) as just "jay", only as
> > jay at linux.home.jay.fm.  Maybe there is something wrong with my
imapd.conf?
> >
> > Jay
> --
> Harris Landgarten <harrisl at lhjonline.com>
>