Authentication failed. generic failure

[Ken Murchison]

Mike Allen wrote:
> Gentlemen:
> 
> When I run 'imtest' on my system, I get the following failure:
> -->: snip <--
> S: A01 NO user not found
> Authentication failed. generic failure
> Security strength factor: 256
> 
> . logout<< manually typed-in because it stalled here.
> 
> * BYE LOGOUT received
> . OK Completed
> Connection closed.
> 
> saslpasswd appears to have the correct user/passwd combo.  I don't
> know what to do next.  My system is FreeBSD 5.1 with cyrus-imapd2 port
> installed(cyrus-imapd version 2.1.15).  My configuration file is attached.

Since you don't show which auth mechanism was used (plaintext or shared 
secret), its hard to help you.  If its plaintext, make sure that 
saslauthd is running (since that is what you have configured for 
sasl_pwcheck_method) and configured correctly.  If its shared secret, 
make sure that /usr/local/etc/sasldb2 exists, the 'cyrus' uid can read 
it an the sasldblistusers2 shows an entry for the user you are trying to 
log in as.

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