trouble settting up cyrus

[Ken Murchison]

Maik Knittel wrote:
> 
> 
> 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

Does the "cyrus" user have read access to /etc/sasldb2?

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