Murder and Backend Authentication

[Hank Beatty]

My conf file looks like this:

##########################################
# Global info's
##########################################
configdirectory: /var/imap
partition-default: /var/spool/imap
unixhierarchysep: yes
altnamespace: yes
imapidresponse: no
##########################################
# Authentification & User rights
##########################################
admins: cyrus murderbackend murderproxy
sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
allowanonymouslogin: no
sasl_mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN
# sasl_auto_transition: yes
##########################################
# Quota & Message size limit
##########################################
quotawarn: 90
autocreatequota: 10240
# maxmessagesize: 10485760
lmtp_overquota_perm_failure: no
##########################################
# ACL
##########################################
defaultacl: anyone lrs
##########################################
# Virtual Domain Support
##########################################
virtdomains: yes
defaultdomain: starburn.net
##########################################
# mupdate parameters
##########################################
mupdate_authname: cyrus
mupdate_password: SuperSecretPassword :)
mupdate_port: 2004
#mupdate_realm:
mupdate_retry_delay: 20
mupdate_server: zeus.email.starband.net
mupdate_workers_start: 5
mupdate_workers_minspare: 2
mupdate_workers_maxspare: 10
mupdate_workers_max: 50
mupdate_username: cyrus
proxyservers: murderproxy


And when I use imtest:

[root at draco root]# imtest -u hbeatty -a hbeatty localhost
S: * OK draco Cyrus IMAP4 v2.2.prealpha server ready
C: C01 CAPABILITY
S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ MAILBOX-REFERRALS
NAMESPACE UIDPLUS ID NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN MULTIAPPEND SORT
THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES IDLE
MUPDATE=mupdate://zeus.email.starband.net/
S: C01 OK Completed
Please enter your password:
C: L01 LOGIN hbeatty {4}
S: + go ahead
C: <omitted>
S: L01 OK User logged in
Authenticated.
Security strength factor: 0

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Siemborski" <rjs3 at andrew.cmu.edu>
To: "Hank Beatty" <hbeatty.lists at earthlink.net>
Cc: "Cyrus-Info" <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 2:29 PM
Subject: Re: Murder and Backend Authentication


> What SASL mechanism are you using between your frontend and backends?
>
> Or rather, what mechanisms are your backends advertising?
>
> -Rob
>
> On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Hank Beatty wrote:
>
> > I'm working on getting a Murder setup and I can authenticate and pull
mail
> > directly from the backend server.
> >
> > However, when I try to proxy the connection I get this in
/var/log/messages
> > on the proxy/master:
> >
> > Jan 31 13:40:35 zeus pop3[5437]: login: SERVER[192.168.247.241] hbeatty
> > plaintext
> > Jan 31 13:40:35 zeus pop3[5437]: couldn't authenticate to backend
server: no
> > mechanism available
> > Jan 31 13:40:35 zeus pop3[5437]: couldn't authenticate to backend server
> >
> > I get this in /var/log/imapd.log on the backend server:
> >
> > Jan 31 13:45:01 draco pop3[32718]: accepted connection
> > Jan 31 13:45:01 draco master[32724]: about to exec /usr/cyrus/bin/pop3d
> > Jan 31 13:45:01 draco master[32688]: process 32718 exited, status 0
> > Jan 31 13:45:01 draco pop3[32724]: executed
> >
> > With this in mind it would seem that when using the proxy the
authentication
> > method is different somehow. Is this correct?
> >
> >
> >
>
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