POP3 authentication problem. Please Help.

[Ken Murchison]

Sergey Merkuriev wrote:
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> Have trouble with POP3 it not work properly. I have two users: user1 and
> user2. The user1 have imap account and can login into IMAP server but can't
> login into POP3 server and user2 cant login into POP3 server. The files
> user1 and user2 exists in the directory /var/spool/email. There is log
> strange records from pop3d.
> 
> Have IMAP and POP3 Server.
> 
> /usr/local/sbin/saslauthd -a shadow
> 
> imap.conf
> 
> configdirectory: /var/imap
> partition-default: /var/spool/imap
> admins: cyrus root
> srvtab: /var/imap/srvtab
> sievedir: /var/sieve
> allowanonymouslogin: no
> sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
> allowplaintext: yes
> 
> cyrus.conf
> ...
> imap          cmd="imapd" listen="imap" prefork=0
> pop3          cmd="pop3d" listen="pop3" prefork=0
> 
> auth.log:
> ....
> Oct  1 22:38:16 abtweb pop3d[29440]: could not find auxprop plugin, was
> searching for '[all]'
> Oct  1 22:38:16 abtweb pop3d[29440]: could not find password
> 
> ./pop3test -u user2 localhost
> 
> S: +OK abtweb Cyrus POP3 v2.1.9 server ready <2878525666.1033498506 at abtweb>
> C: CAPA
> S: +OK List of capabilities follows
> S: EXPIRE NEVER
> S: LOGIN-DELAY 0
> S: TOP
> S: UIDL
> S: PIPELINING
> S: RESP-CODES
> S: AUTH-RESP-CODE
> S: USER
> S: IMPLEMENTATION Cyrus POP3 server v2.1.9
> S: .
> Please enter your password:
> C: APOP root 8cec702222679eae661ac964b834e1d8
> S: -ERR [AUTH] authenticating: another step is needed in authentication
> Authentication failed. generic failure
> Security strength factor: 0

Try:

./pop3test -u user2 -m user localhost

The fact that pop3d is advertising APOP (with a challenge in the banner)
without auxprop being available is a bug.  I'll look into it.

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