cyrus-sasl / ldap problem

Gregory Chagnon gregchagnon at hotmail.com
Tue Oct 29 08:52:40 EST 2002


Hi:I'm having a problem getting Cyrus IMAP to work with OpenLDAP.  User 
cliff.clavin is under ou=Users,dc=gregbox,dc=com.  When I run imtest, here 
is the error I get...thanks everyone so much in advance:

[root at Lunar]:/home/gchagnon> imtest -m login -a cliff.clavin localhost
S: * OK Lunar Cyrus IMAP4 v2.1.9-Invoca-RPM-2.1.9-6 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 LISTEXT 
LIST-SUBSCRIBED ANNOTATEMORE X-NETSCAPE
S: C01 OK Completed
Please enter your password:
C: L01 LOGIN cliff.clavin {6}
S: + go ahead
C: <omitted>
S: L01 NO Login failed: generic failure
Authentication failed. generic failure
Security strength factor: 0
C: Q01 LOGOUT
Connection closed.


Here is the entry from /var/log/imap.log:

Oct 29 08:47:14 Lunar master[6197]: about to exec /usr/libexec/cyrus/imapd
Oct 29 08:47:14 Lunar imap[6197]: executed
Oct 29 08:47:14 Lunar imapd[5489]: accepted connection
Oct 29 08:47:16 Lunar imapd[5489]: badlogin: Lunar[127.0.0.1] plaintext 
cliff.clavin SASL(-1): generic failure: checkpass failed
Oct 29 08:48:24 Lunar master[5446]: process 5489 exited, status 0


Here are my config files:

<<imap.conf>>

configdirectory: /var/lib/imap
partition-default: /var/spool/imap
admins: cliff.clavin cyrus gchagnon
allowanonymouslogin: no
sieveuserhomedir: no
sievedir: /var/lib/imap/sieve
sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
hashimapspool: true
sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
sasl_passwd_check: saslauthd
sasl_ldap_server: localhost
#sasl_ldap_basedn: ou=Users,dc=gregbox,dc=com
sasl_ldap_basedn: dc=gregbox,dc=com
sasl_mech_list: PLAIN
tls_cert_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/cyrus-imapd.pem
tls_key_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/cyrus-imapd.pem

<<saslauthd.conf>>

ldap_servers: ldap://localhost/
ldap_bind_dn: cn=Manager,dc=gregbox,dc=com
ldap_bind_pw: *******

<<slapd.conf (important parts)>>
database        ldbm
suffix          "dc=gregbox,dc=com"
rootdn          "cn=Manager,dc=gregbox,dc=com"
rootpw          *******
directory       /var/lib/ldap

index   objectClass,uid,uidNumber,gidNumber,memberUid   eq
index   cn,mail,surname,givenname                       eq,subinitial



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