Authenticating Mail Users

[Danny García Hernández]

Have you running the saslauthd daemon with sasldb mech?

Some thing like this in your cyrus´s init file.

/path/to/saslauthd -a sasldb &


Regards
Danny

----- Original Message -----
From: "Krishna" <Krishna_shekhar at gmx.net>
To: <info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 6:54 PM
Subject: Authenticating Mail Users


> Hi,
>       I am using Horde/IMP on RedHat 7.3 with Cyrus IMAP. I am having
> problems authenticatin users. I folowed the Cyrus howto and added users.
>
> The problem is that it is authenticating users from the /etc/passwd and
> shadow file and not from sasldb and mails go to the Cyrus Imap mail
> directories, which works ok.
> With this method I have to create the user both from cyradm and useradd.
> I want to get users authenticated from the sasldb file and not /etc/passwd
> and shadow.
>
> This is what my imapd.conf shows
> [root at linux /]# cat /etc/imapd.conf
> configdirectory: /var/lib/imap
> partition-default: /var/spool/imap
> admins: cyrus
> allowanonymouslogin: no
> sieveuserhomedir: no
> sievedir: /var/lib/imap/sieve
> sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
> hashimapspool: true
> sasl_sasldb_path: /etc/sasldb
> sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
> sasl_mech_list: PLAIN
> tls_cert_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/cyrus-imapd.pem
> tls_key_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/cyrus-imapd.pem
> [root at linux /]#
>
> regards
> Krishna
> http://www.KrisinDigitalAge.com
>
>
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