sieveshell auth on sasldb

[Tom Allison]

I'm having some problems with sieveshell authentication.

I can get it to work partially, but I do not understand why one works 
and the other does not.
sieveshell documentation seems a little thin, but this is probably 
because it's one of those things that pretty simple to get working.
I have not yet tried to do anything in regard to postfix and am not 
trying to do smtp_auth at this time.
I'm still struggling with sieveshell and sasldb.

For what it's worth, it would probably be better to just list what I'm 
doing and seeing.

CONFIGURATION
/etc/imapd.conf:
sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop
sasl_auxprop_plugin: sasldb

postconf -n | grep myhostname
myhostname = mcgee.tacocat.net

mcgee:~ # ls -l /etc/sasldb2
-rw-r-----    1 root     mail        12288 2003-10-27 07:07 /etc/sasldb2

I am trying to use the authentication with a domain matching my $myhostname.

WHATS HAPPENING
This works (logged in as root at localhost)

mcgee:~ # sasldblistusers2
mcgee:~ # saslpasswd2 -c bobby
Password:
Again (for verification):
mcgee:~ # sasldblistusers2
bobby at mcgee: userPassword

mcgee:~ # sieveshell -u bobby -a bobby localhost
connecting to localhost
Please enter your password:
 > quit
mcgee:~ #

This does not work:
mcgee:~ # sasldblistusers2
mcgee:~ # saslpasswd2 -c -u mcgee.tacocat.net bobby
Password:
Again (for verification):
mcgee:~ # sasldblistusers2
bobby at mcgee.tacocat.net: userPassword
mcgee:~ # sieveshell -u bobby -a bobby -r mcgee.tacocat.net localhost
connecting to localhost
Please enter your password:
Please enter your password:
Please enter your password:
Please enter your password:
unable to connect to server at /usr/bin/sieveshell line 174, <STDIN> line 4.
mcgee:~ #

And this was the result in the logs.
Oct 27 07:07:35 mcgee master[5411]: about to exec 
/usr/lib/cyrus/bin/timsieved
Oct 27 07:07:35 mcgee sieve[5411]: executed
Oct 27 07:07:35 mcgee sieve[5411]: accepted connection
Oct 27 07:07:35 mcgee timsieved[5411]: OTP unavailable because can't 
read/write key database /etc/opiekeys: No such file or directory
Oct 27 07:07:35 mcgee timsieved[5411]: DIGEST-MD5 server step 1
Oct 27 07:07:35 mcgee perl: DIGEST-MD5 client step 2
Oct 27 07:07:37 mcgee timsieved[5411]: DIGEST-MD5 server step 2
Oct 27 07:07:37 mcgee timsieved[5411]: no secret in database
Oct 27 07:07:37 mcgee timsieved[5411]: badlogin: localhost[127.0.0.1] 
DIGEST-MD5 authentication failure
Oct 27 07:07:38 mcgee timsieved[5411]: Password verification failed
Oct 27 07:07:38 mcgee timsieved[5411]: badlogin: localhost[127.0.0.1] 
PLAIN authentication failure
Oct 27 07:07:40 mcgee timsieved[5411]: badlogin: localhost[127.0.0.1] 
LOGIN authentication failure
Oct 27 07:07:41 mcgee timsieved[5411]: no secret in database
Oct 27 07:07:41 mcgee timsieved[5411]: badlogin: localhost[127.0.0.1] 
CRAM-MD5 authentication failure
Oct 27 07:07:41 mcgee perl: No worthy mechs found
Oct 27 07:07:41 mcgee master[1172]: process 5411 exited, status 0