setup looks right ...but it won't authenticate ...

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Thu Jul 24 11:05:00 EDT 2003


What does sasldblistusers2 show?


Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> Just setup using sasl2, but if I try and connect with cyradm, using the
> right passwd, it fails to connect with a core dump:
> 
> test# cyradm --user cyrus localhost
> Password:
> cyradm: cannot authenticate to server with  as cyrus
> Bus error (core dumped)
> 
> The error in the log file is:
> 
> Jul 24 01:42:12 test perl: All-whitespace username.
> Jul 24 01:42:12 test perl: No worthy mechs found
> 
> everything looks okay, I think, in my imapd.conf file:
> 
> test# cat /usr/local/etc/imapd.conf
> configdirectory: /var/spool/imap
> partition-default: /var/spool/mail
> admins: cyrus at test.hub.org admin at test.hub.org
> duplicatesuppression: 1
> sievedir: /var/spool/sieve
> sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
> hashimapspool: yes
> sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop
> lmtpsocket: /var/run/socket/lmtp
> quotawarn: 90
> virtdomains: 1
> 
> and permissions on sasldb2 looks right:
> 
> test# ls -ld /usr/local/etc/sasldb2
> -rw-r--r--  1 cyrus  wheel  49152 Jul 24 01:39 /usr/local/etc/sasldb2
> 
> but even a connection through imap fails:
> 
> telnet localhost imap
> Trying ::1...
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> * OK test.hub.org Cyrus IMAP4 v2.2.1-BETA server ready
> . login cyrus at test.hub.org test
> . NO Login failed: user not found
> . logout
> * BYE LOGOUT received
> . OK Completed
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> 
> so, what's staring me in the face that I'm not seeing? :(
> 
> thanks ...
> 

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