[Fwd: Migration of Cyrus IMAP from one server to another (realm problem?)]

[Tarjei Huse]

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Tarjei

Andrew Barnes wrote:

>Hi Guys,
>
>Just wondering if any has any thoughts on my email (below)?
>
>Cheers,
>  Andrew
>
>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: Migration of Cyrus IMAP from one server to another (realm problem?)
>From: "Andrew Barnes" <andrewbarnes at mosina.com.au>
>Date: Mon, March 10, 2003 9:11
>To: <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
>
>Hi Guys,
>
>I'm in the process of migrating an email server from one physical server
>to a new server.
>
>Old Server = Cyrus IMAP v2.1.11, Cyrus-SASL v2.1.10
>New Server = Cyrus IMAP v2.1.12, Cyrus-SASL v2.1.12
>
>I have compiled both servers with DB3 support.  New server is FreeBSD
>v4.7.
>
>After compiling on new server, I have migrated the /var/imap and
>/var/spool/imap directories, and my original sasldb2 auth file to the
>new server.  I have configured both servers the same (imapd.conf,
>cyrus.conf) - using auxprops for plaintext authentication.
>
>My problem is that I am unable to authenticate/login to the new server
>using my web-based email client (hence requirement for plaintext login).
> When I try to login, I get the following error in the /var/log/messages
>on my new server
>
>Mar 10 08:32:46 newserver imapd[1259]: badlogin: localhost.domain.com
>[127.0.0.1] plaintext user1 SASL(-13): user not found: checkpass failed
>
>I get the exact same messages in my /var/log/imapd.conf log.
>
>FQDN of servers are (for example) oldserver.domain.com and
>newserver.domain.com
>
>/usr/local/sbin/sasldblistusers2 shows the following:
>
>user1 at oldserver.domain.com: cmusaslsecretDIGEST-MD5
>user1 at oldserver.domain.com: cmusaslsecretPLAIN
>user1 at oldserver.domain.com: cmusaslsecretCRAM-MD5
>
>I'm presuming that I need to somehow change the realm for these servers
>(at the very least) to "user1 at newserver.domain.com" - ideally, they
>would use "user1 at domain1.com" and "user2 at domain2.co.za"
>
>So I guess an obvious question is - how do I migrate the user logins to
>a new domain, while retaining the links to their existing emails, etc.
>
>At the moment - all users login using simply "user1" and "<passwd>" - as
>oppose to "user1 at domain.com" - any ideas on how do to this?
>
>I'm kind of presuming that these questions are one in the same questions
>- just a slight variation on a theme!
>
>I hope that this information helps - please let me know if there's any
>more information you might require.
>
>Many Thanks for any help that you might be able to offer.
>  Andrew
>
>  
>