Cyrus Authentication problems

[Simon Matter]

>> With your config, forget saslpasswd, you don't have to use it. You can
>> add
>> unix users and then create the mailboxes for them. Call cyradm like
>> this:
>>
>> cyradm --user cyrus --auth login localhost
>>
>> then use 'cm user.name' to create the mailboxes.
>
> Simon,
>
> OK, makes sense, no more saslpasswd... Here's what I have done to create a
> testuser. However, I still can't authenticate this user in SquirrelMail or
> imtest. What am I doing wrong?
>
> [root at mail root]# useradd -s /bin/false -p fcstestuser testuser

Are you sure you can set the password like this? IIRC you can only do this
with the encrypted passwd. Please try 'passwd testuser'.

> [root at mail root]# cyradm --user cyrus --auth login localhost
> IMAP Password:
>
> localhost.localdomain> cm user.testuser
> localhost.localdomain> lam user.testuser
> testuser lrswipcda
> localhost.localdomain> exit

So, obviously your authentication works perfect!

>
> [root at mail root]# imtest -u testuser -m login localhost

Hm, I have never used imtest. Just try telnet localhost pop3 and try to
login.

HTH
Simon

> S: * OK mail.fcsservices.com Cyrus IMAP4 v2.1.15-Invoca-RPM-2.1.15-1
> 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 STARTTLS LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED
> ANNOTATEMORE X-NETSCAPE
> S: C01 OK Completed
> Please enter your password:
> C: L01 LOGIN root {11}
> S: + go ahead
> C: <omitted>
> S: L01 NO Login failed: authentication failure
> Authentication failed. generic failure
> Security strength factor: 0
>
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> Doug
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