Cyrus Authentication problems

[Simon Matter]

> I've set up a Cyrus IMAP server (on RH9), and it's working great. However,
> I
> didn't document the process of adding users/mailboxes, and know when I try
> to add someone, they can't authenticate. I don't have a good understanding
> of how authentication works in Cyrus, but here are (I think) relevant
> entries in my /etc/imapd.conf file:
>
> sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
> sasl_mech_list: PLAIN
>
> IIRC, all I did initially to add users was add a user to /etc/passwd, and
> use saslpasswd -c, and then use cyradm to create the mailbox. However,

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


> when
> I do that now, and test using imtest, I get an error:
>
> S: L01 NO Login failed: authentication failure
> Authentication failed. generic failure
>
> sasldblistusers only lists the user the user I just created, and none of
> the
> working users. So I guess that I'm not using sasldb.
> Any help is greatly appreciated!
>
> Doug Koobs
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