SOLVED was: Re: cyradm: Login failed: generic failure at ... Cyrus/IMAP/Admin.pm

[Dennis Leist]

THX for your help!

I think I made it!

Mike O'Rourke schrieb:

>
>> Hi,
>>
>> still having troubles with cyrus!
>> MAJOR PROBLEM : I cannot set up mailboxes.
>>
>> Getting access to cyrus gives me:
>>
>> #> cyradm --user cyrus --auth login localhost
>> IMAP Password:
>>               Login failed: generic failure at
>> /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1/Cyrus/IMAP/Admin.pm line 114
>> cyradm: cannot authenticate to server with login as cyrus
>
>
> This is exactly the error I get when I try "--auth login". Try with 
> "--auth plain". If that is rejected as an unworthy mech, see if 
> cyrus-sasl was compiled with the --enable-plain option. Failing that 
> you can try it with "--auth CRAM-MD5". 

I need these configure settings :
./configure --with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl --enable-plain --enable-cram 
--enable-login

But i have only access by using:

#> cyradm --user cyrus --auth CRAM-MD5 localhost

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