Problems with authentication

[Michael Obster]

Hi,

> Are you logging cyrus (local6.debug) and SASL (auth.debug)? If so, what do 
> they say?

auth.log:
Jan  3 11:16:06 gutmann saslauthd[1536]: START: saslauthd 2.1.10
Jan  3 11:16:06 gutmann saslauthd[1536]: FATAL: no authentication mechanism specified
Jan  3 11:16:53 gutmann imapd[1544]: unknown password verifier

where can I say which one saslauthd should use.
Btw. I have tried to give saslauthd the mechanism by:
saslauthd -a sasldb ...
but i get an unknown mechanism error. other methods also tried and there i get the same.

Regards,
Michael