trouble settting up cyrus

[Eugene Chow]

Does your imapd.conf have the parameter 'servername' configured? If so, 
you must specify that particular domain name while creating users.

Try this before you change anything:
  imtest -a cyrus -m login localhost

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>I can't get cyrus working. I'm trying to install version
>2.1.12 with SASLv2 on a debian 3.0 system. I don't want
>to create debian users for every imap user so I'd like
>to use the sasldb athentication. I don't want to use
>PAM/mySQL.
>
>I've got the cyrus daemon running but I can't login
>either with cyradm nor imtest. I've already created
>a sasl user with saslpasswd2, but the log still says:
>
>badlogin: XXXXX.XXXXXXX[XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX] DIGEST-MD5 [SASL(-13): user not
>found: no secret in database]
>
>imtest says:
>
>imtest -u cyrus localhost
>S: * OK SF111 Cyrus IMAP4 v2.1.12-Debian-2.1.12-6 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 AUTH=NTLM AUTH=DIGEST-MD5
>AUTH=CRAM-MD5 LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED ANNOTATEMORE
>S: C01 OK Completed
>C: A01 AUTHENTICATE DIGEST-MD5
>[...]
>Please enter your password:
>C: [...]
>S: A01 NO user not found
>Authentication failed. generic failure
>Security strength factor: 128
>
>entries in imapd.conf:
>
>sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop
>sasl_auxprop_plugin: sasldb
>sasl_sasldb_path: /etc/sasldb2
>
>I have no clue about auxprop. Do I have to conifigure
>it separately? Am I missing something?
>
>regards
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