request help on setting IMAP

[Randy Kunkee]

Henry wrote:

> My intention is to create a mail server that is based on own database, not
> using linux's user database for my LAN using a web-based interface,
> squirrelmail that is.
> I have finally compiled BerkeleyDB, Cyrus-SASL and Cyrus-IMAP
>
> I'm only able to start sasl using "-a shadow"
> I think that by using "shadow", it  will utilise the same user db that is
> used by Linux's user database. I would prefer to use another simple internal
> db or file. Any suggestion on which easy-to-setup mechanism?
>
> Using "-a pam" will result in:
> Sep 26 14:37:09 legend saslauthd[2521]: daemon started, listening on
> /var/run/saslauthd/mux
> Sep 26 14:37:26 legend saslauthd[2521]: DEBUG: auth_pam: pam_authenticate
> failed: Authentication failure
> Sep 26 14:37:26 legend saslauthd[2521]: AUTHFAIL: user=henry service=imap
> realm= [PAM auth error]
>
> Here's my startup:
> #start imap
> /usr/cyrus/bin master &
>
> #start sasl
> saslauthd -a shadow
>
> #lmtest result:
> S: * OK legend Cyrus IMAP4 v2.1.9 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
> S: C01 OK Completed
> Please enter your password:
> C: L01 LOGIN root {6}
> S: + go ahead
> C: <omitted>
> S: L01 OK User logged in
> Authenticated.
> Security strength factor: 0
>
> Another problem that occurs when i try to create mailbox in cyradm: auth.log
> perl: unable to dlopen /usr/lib/sasl2/libsasldb.so.2: libdb-4.0.so: cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory
> perl: unable to dlopen /usr/lib/sasl2/libotp.so.2: libdb-4.0.so: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory

You most likely didn't compile the sasl plugins with the appropriate -R or
-rpath to include the path where libdb-4.0.so can be found.  A simple
workaround would be to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

>
> perl: No worthy mechs found
>
> Any hint on where did i foul up?
>
> regards,
> henry

Good luck,
Randy