Problem with starting Cyradm

[Rob Siemborski]

On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Dennis Pedersen wrote:

> Hi,
> I have been trying to get Cyrus (cyrus-imapd-2.0.17 ) to work on my
> FreeBSD box (4.7-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #0: Wed Oct  9 15:08:34 GMT
> 2002     root at builder.freebsdmall.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> i386). Cyrus has been installed through ports and I just did a cvsup
> before installing to make sure (I installed it on a simmular box for
> some time ago, pretty much the same fault so I'm missing something.)
[snip]
> C: C01 CAPABILITY
> S: * OK samba.jr-data.dk Cyrus IMAP4 v2.0.17 server ready
> S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ NAMESPACE UIDPLUS ID
> NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT MULTIAPPEND SORT THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT
> THREAD=REFERENCES IDLE AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 AUTH=CRAM-MD5
[snip]
> Imap.conf:
> sasl_pwcheck_method: pwcheck
> admins: cyrus
>
> rc.conf:
> sasl_pwcheck_enable="YES"
> sasl_pwcheck_program="/usr/local/sbin/pwcheck"

CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5 will only work (in SASLv1) if you use the sasldb to
get password equivilants.

If you need to use pwcheck, you must use plain and/or login.

I do recommend you upgrade to 2.1.11 if this is a new installation.

-Rob

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