Cyrus Authentication Problem

[Ken Murchison]

Jon \"GenKIller\" Gaudette wrote:
> 
> Good and Bad News :(
> 
> That fixed that particular authentication error, but aunveiled another
> one :(
> 
> Now when I issue the command imtest -m login -p imap localhost as user
> cyrus it 'works'.  However, when I try to create a new user by following
> the directions at http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Cyrus-IMAP-8.html#ss8.2 I
> cannot seem to add users to my server:
> 
> I attempted to create the user 'joebob'.  But even after I user
> 'saslpasswd joebob' and set the password accordingly, I still get the
> following error when attempting to login

If you are using /etc/shadow for plaintext passwords, then you need to
add joebob's password with 'passwd' or whatever command you use on your
system.


> 
> ---
> [root at mail root]# imtest -m login -a joebob localhost
> S: * OK mail.url Cyrus IMAP4 v2.1.11-Invoca-RPM-2.1.11-3 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 STARTTLS LISTEXT
> LIST-SUBSCRIBED ANNOTATEMORE X-NETSCAPE
> S: C01 OK Completed
> Please enter your password:
> C: L01 LOGIN joebob {8}
> S: + go ahead
> C: <omitted>
> S: L01 NO Login failed: authentication failure
> Authentication failed. generic failure
> Security strength factor: 0
> . logout
> * BYE LOGOUT received
> . OK Completed
> Connection closed.
> ---
> 
> Thank you very much for the help thus far, and help you can provide
> again will be truly appreciated!!!
> 
> -Jon
> 
> On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 12:47, Ken Murchison wrote:
> > This is not valid with SASLv2 (I'm guessing that you read this in an old
> > FAQ somewhere).  Change this to 'saslauthd' and start 'saslauthd -a
> > shadow'

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