GURU advise seeked, 'permission denied' while creating mailbox

[Robert Scussel]

May seem trivial, but does:

admins: cyrus

exist in your have your imapd.conf ?

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jokke heikkila wrote:
> I keep hitting my head to the wall with this one. I've installed
> cyrus-postfix-mysql setup under debian box and everything else seems to work as
> shoud except the mailbox creation. I keep getting 'permission denied' whatever I
> try and now I'm out of ideas. Below are snippets of two ways I've tried to
> create the mailboxes. 
> 
> --with cyradm-- 
> tahko:/root$ cyradm --user cyrus localhost 
> IMAP Password: 
>               tahko> lm 
> tahko> cm magnusborg0001/mailbox 
> createmailbox: Permission denied 
> tahko> quit 
> 
> --with imtest-- 
> tahko:/root$ imtest -u cyrus -a cyrus localhost 
> S: * OK tahko.magnusborg.fi 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 
> S: C01 OK Completed 
> Please enter your password: 
> C: L01 LOGIN cyrus {6} 
> S: + go ahead 
> C: <omitted> 
> S: L01 OK User logged in 
> Authenticated. 
> Security strength factor: 0 
> . create magnusborg0001.cyrus 
> . NO Permission denied 
> 
> 
> SASL works beatifully, so does web-cyradm except for creating the mailbox. Any
> ideas what could be the cause. 
> 
> Debian woody 
> Postfix 2.0.16 
> cyrus-imapd-2.1.11 
> cyrus-sasl-2.1.10 
> 
> 
> jokke h. 


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