Postfix-cyrus-postgresql-web-cyradm

[Patrick Nelson]

bummer no responses... that's what I was afraid of...

How about "does anyone know of a way I can troubleshoot this?"

On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 23:05, Patrick Nelson wrote:
> RH9
> 
> So I've been following this how-to of
> Postfix-cyrus.postgresql-web-cyradm 
> (http://www.web-cyradm.org/documentation/Postfix-cyrus-postgreSQL-web-cyradm.pdf.gz)
> 
> I've got to the point where I have to test cyradm (page 17) prior to
> setting up web-cyradm but I'm not getting authenticated.  I've gone over
> the documentation a few more times and everything seem right.  I enter
> the following:
> 
> cyradm --user cyrus --server localhost
> 
> to which I get:
> 
> IMAP Password:
> 
> to which I enter the password.  To which I get:
> 
> Login failed: generic failure at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Cyrus/IMAP/Admin.pm line 118
> cyradm: cannot authenticate to server with  as cyrus
> 
> Message in /var/log is:
> 
> Aug 21 22:30:15 ca perl: No worthy mechs found
> Aug 21 22:30:22 ca imapd[1550]: size read failed
> Aug 21 22:30:22 ca imapd[1550]: badlogin: ca.npn[127.0.0.1] plaintext
> cyrus SASL(-1): generic failure: checkpass failed
> 
> Anyone understand my failure?  I thought it might have been permissions
> on directories, because initially I was getting a different error than
> the size read failed:
> 
> Aug 21 20:54:13 ca perl: No worthy mechs found
> Aug 21 20:54:26 ca imapd[899]: cannot connect to saslauthd server:
> Permission denied
> Aug 21 20:54:26 ca imapd[899]: badlogin: ca.npn[127.0.0.1] plaintext
> cyrus SASL(-1): generic failure: checkpass failed
> 
> so I matched the permissions and ownership of our production cyrus-imapd
> and cyrus-sasl system.  Now I get this different error.
> 
>