Any suggestion ?

[Patrick Welche]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 05:56:52PM +0800, Lin Wang wrote:
> 
> When I installed db-4.0.14, cyrus-sasl-2.1.6 and cyrus-imapd-2.1.5 on a new
> Solaris platform, with gcc-2.95.3, make-3.79.1 and perl-5.8.0, which went
> through on another machine.
> Unfortunately this time there was a strange problem which had tortured me
> for a whole day:
>     When I connected to port 143 and tried to login as cyrus (in admins of
> /etc/imapd.conf), I got this:
>         1 NO Login failed: user not found
>     Or when I run the script: cyradm --user=cyrus --server=localhost, after
> inputing the passwd, I got this:
>         Login failed: user not found at
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/sun4-solaris/Cyrus/IMAP/Admin.pm line
> 114
>         cyradm: cannot authenticate to server with  as cyrus
> 
>     But the user "cyrus" does exist and I checked by
> /usr/local/sbin/sasldblistusers2.
>     Meanwhile, I could login as anonymous if I choosed the option. however
> it was no use!
> 
>     I guess it's sth wrong with SASL procedure, but no idea on it. grateful
> for ANY suggestion !

Can you log in using "imtest" instead of "cyradm"? (Simpler to my mind without
all the perl wrappers) And tail -f /var/log/authlog ?

Cheers,

Patrick