Problems with authentication

[John A. Tamplin]

Michael Obster wrote:

>Hi,
>
>thx for the people who showed me the good documentation ;-)
>
>Ok. I have now tracked the problem a little bit.
>
>root at gutmann:/usr/lib# imtest -m login -a cyrus localhost
>S: * OK gutmann Cyrus IMAP4 v2.1.11 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 AUTH=CRAM-MD5 AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 AUTH=OTP
>S: C01 OK Completed
>Please enter your password:
>C: L01 LOGIN cyrus {8}
>S: + go ahead
>C: <omitted>
>S: L01 NO Login failed: generic failure
>Authentication failed. generic failure
>Security strength factor: 0
>. logout
>* BYE LOGOUT received
>. OK Completed
>Connection closed.
>
>Looks like for some reason cyrus cannot authenticate my users. I use sasl 2.1.10.
>
>Here is my /etc/imapd.conf:
>configdirectory: /var/imap
>partition-default: /var/spool/imap
>admins: cyrus
>sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
>  
>
You also need allowplaintext: yes in your imapd.conf to enable LOGIN or 
AUTH PLAIN.

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John A. Tamplin
Unix Systems Administrator