Problems with authentication

[David Chait]

Michael,
    Did you remember to create the symbolic link between /usr/local/sasl2
and /usr/sasl2 ?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Obster" <mo1032 at apollo.bingo-ev.de>
To: <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 2:24 PM
Subject: Problems with authentication


> 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
>
> Regards,
> Michael Obster
>
>