beginner's question

[David Chait]

To be clear about this, you did create an account within Cyrus's db using
cyradm, not just a system account correct?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jochen Stärk" <jstaerk at usegroup.de>
To: <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 3:44 PM
Subject: beginner's question


> hi there,
>
> I've installed Suse 8.1 professional and decided to go from uw imap with
> shadow authentication to the cyrus server that ship with suse. Well, the
> thing is: I can't log me in. Although Cyrus is up and running (telnet
> localhost imap: "cyrus imap4 2.1.9 server ready"), when I try e.g. LOGIN
> cyrus, it will say LOGIN BAD please login first.
>
> I checked that sasl is running (rcsaslauthd start) and ps -aux  will
> report me 5 "saslauthd -a pam".
>
> Also, i gave cyrus a sasl1 as well as sasl2-entry in the db, using
> saslpasswd -c cyrus and saslpasswd2 -c cyrus. Anyway, NO LOGIN IS
ACCEPTED.
> imtest -u cyrus localhost also prompts me for a password, but when i
> enter the pwd, it will say S: A01 NO Error authenticating Authentication
> failes. generic failure
> Security strength factor: 128
>
> Two more things to mention: in /etc/imapd.conf, the pwcheck is stated to
> be  sasl_pwcheck_method:saslauthd and
> my Suse-Cyrus seems to be compiled as if it would not accept
> shadow-auth, so please don't ask me to trigger that on.
>
> Is this thing trying to authenticate me on sasl or what? is my entry in
> the sasldb sufficient or do i have to type that somekind of pam
> frontend? Is there maybe even a default password for the first
> configuration?
>
> Where is the logfile  that tells me why those login-attempts have failed?
>
>  thanks in advance,
> Jochen
>
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