problem with old SASLDB

[stefano sartini]

Hi,

i spent a week trying to replicate an old installation of cyrus-imap +
postfix, trying not to lose about 300+ mail users & mailboxes. That
server will be replaced and the mailbox shoud not be affected by the
migration.

First attempt was to install over a RH 7.3 a plain new Cyrus (latest
rel.) from sources. It all went fine, but when i got the /etc/sasldb
from the "old" server, i was not able to authenticate.

So i searched the old server for the precise version of cyrus it has
installed on, and i found:

cyrus-imapd-devel-2.0.15-hiersepr2
cyrus-sasl-devel-1.5.24-184
cyrus-imapd-2.0.15-hiersepr2
cyrus-sasl-1.5.24-184

so i got them and installed on the new server. But, as u can imagine, 
before i did a lot of tries to make it work, installing and deinstalling
libraries from source and from RPMs, so the new server is a little
messed up.

I replicated /var/imap and /var/spool/imap , i took /etc/imapd.conf and
/etc/cyrus.conf, i reconstruct-ed mailboxes (As i found in a tutorial
about crash recovery) and started ./master &

then i tried to change a pass for a fake user but  from /var/log/messages:

Nov  6 12:14:09 5terre saslpasswd: error fetching from sasldb: Invalid
argument
Nov  6 12:14:09 5terre saslpasswd: error closing sasldb: Invalid argument
Nov  6 12:14:09 5terre saslpasswd: failed to set plaintext secret for
pippo: generic failure
Nov  6 12:14:09 5terre saslpasswd: PLAIN: failed to set secret for
pippo: generic failure

That error is common in EVERY application that makes use of /etc/sasldb

also tested with

  /usr/local/bin/imtest -u cyrus -v localhost
C: C01 CAPABILITY
S: * OK 5terre Cyrus IMAP4 v2.0.15-HIERSEP-r2 server ready
S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ NAMESPACE UIDPLUS ID 
NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT MULTIAPPEND SORT THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT 
THREAD=REFERENCES IDLE X-NETSCAPE
S: C01 OK Completed
Password:
C: L01 LOGIN root {5}
+ go ahead
C: <omitted>
L01 NO Login failed: generic failure
Authentication failed. generic failure
Security strength factor: 0

* BAD Invalid tag

Is it normal not to see AUTH=CRAM-MD5 and others AUTH methods?

A note: the original server's name is "abraracurcix" while new one is
"5terre". Doing a strace on saslpasswd i saw it looks for uname, finding
"5terre", but the /etc/sasldb contains "abraracurcix" as realm ...

How can i fix it?

Thanks in advance for any help,
Stefano Sartini

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