cyradm

[Daryl]

It seems my problem is that I only want to offer imaps as a service, but 
when I comment imap out of cyrus.conf, the cyradm tool won't connect. Is 
there another way around this ?.

Daryl

--On 03 February 2003 08:29 +0100 Simon Matter 
<simon.matter at ch.sauter-bc.com> wrote:

> Daryl Field schrieb:
>>
>> I'm having a little trouble with the cyradm tool, firstly I'd like to
>> point out that I'm only running Cyrus in a lab & am not that familiar at
>> this point.
>>
>> I'm authenticating using saslauthd -a pam, everything is working fine
>> from an imap perspective, only imaps, using local acccounts, it's
>> running on Redhat. Only issue is the cyradm tool won't connect to the
>> local server.
>
> You don't need an entry in /etc/saslauthdb2 if you're authenitacting
> against PAM. Just try:
>
> cyradm --user=cyrus --auth=login localhost
>
> HTH
> Simon
>
>> I've tried, using the --auth switch with a whole load of permutations,
>> unix,plain,pam,saslauth, tha man pages lists --auth[mechanism] without
>> specifying the mechs explicitly.
>>
>> My account is listed as an admin in /etc/imap.conf, put an entry in
>> /etc/saslauthdb2 just in case, but am still having difficulties.
>>
>> A quick rundown of how & what against this tool auths against would be
>> most helpfull.
>>
>> Thanks up front & apologies if this question's a little low-brow.
>>
>> Daryl
>