POP AUTHFAIL

[Igor Brezac]

On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Felix Cuello wrote:

> Hello!
>
>    I'm still in troubles... working with Cyrus 2.1.9 and SASL 2.1.9,
>    doing authentication into an openldap server... this error appers
>    in my /var/log/messages
>
> Nov  7 15:00:11 sinclair pop3d[3432]: login: sinclair[200.xxx.xxx.xxx]
> fcuell plaintext
> Nov  7 15:00:49 sinclair saslauthd[554]: AUTHFAIL: user=fcuell
> service=pop realm=
>
> Why this fails sometimes?,
>

Does it work other times?  If there are problems with ldap, you will see
more lines in the syslog.  This message alone may indicate a bad password.
Have you tested saslauthd with testsaslauthd?  Check LDAP_SASLAUTHD file
in $cyrus-sasl-src/saslauthd/LDAP_SASLAUTHD for more information.

-Igor