old issue, again: "cyradm: cannot authenticate to server with DIGEST-MD5"

[Sebastian Hagedorn]

Hi,

--On Sonntag, 19. Dezember 2004 23:07:32 Uhr MEZ -0800 OpenMacNews 
<cyrus-info.20.openmacnews at spamgourmet.com> wrote:

> i'm trying to login to administer via cyradm, but am failing at:
>
> % cyradm --auth DIGEST-MD5 --user testuser --server
> mail.internal.testdomain.com --port 143
> 	cyradm: cannot authenticate to server with DIGEST-MD5 as testuser
>
> with logs =
>
> 	Dec 19 23:00:21 master[1611]: process 1618 exited, status 0
> 	Dec 19 23:00:34 master[1622]: about to exec
> /usr/local/cyrus-imap/libexec/imapd
> 	Dec 19 23:00:34 imap[1622]: executed
> 	Dec 19 23:00:34 imap[1622]: accepted connection
...

> my imapd.conf is:
> -------------------------------------------------------
...
> 	sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop
> 	sasl_auxprop_plugin: sasldb
> 	allowanonymouslogin: no
> 	allowplaintext: no
> 	sasl_mech_list: PLAIN DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5
> 	sasl_auto_transition: no
> 	sasl_minimum_layer: 256

I think this line is your problem. I don't know any application that 
actually uses a layer for DIGEST-MD5. All the ones I've tried use it only 
for authentication. Try setting sasl_minimum_layer to 0. My guess is it'll 
work after that ...

Cheers, Sebastian Hagedorn
--
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Zentrum für angewandte Informatik - Universitätsweiter Service RRZK
Universität zu Köln / Cologne University - Tel. +49-221-478-5587
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