authentification problems with imtest

[Andrew Morgan]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Thomas Vogt wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm very confused with sasl and cyrus. All my users are in a ldap
> database.
>
> I can't authenticate with imtest. I searched the mailing list archiv.
>
> My enviroment ist very basic.
>
> my saslauth.conf
> ldap_servers: ldap://soho
> ldap_search_base: ou=people,ou=lan,dc=lan,dc=ch
> ldap_filter: (|(uid=%u)(mailacceptinggeneralid=%u))
>
> My ldap works.
>
> soho# testsaslauthd -u sohotest -p testsoho
> 0: OK "Success.
>
> But when I try to do imtest it doesn't work
>
> soho# imtest -m plain -a sohotest -w testsoho
> WARNING: no hostname supplied, assuming localhost
>
> S: * OK soho Cyrus IMAP4 v2.2.10 server ready
> C: C01 CAPABILITY
> S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ MAILBOX-REFERRALS
> NAMESPACE UIDPLUS ID NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN MULTIAPPEND
> BINARY SORT THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES ANNOTATEMORE IDLE
> LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED
> S: C01 OK Completed
> C: A01 AUTHENTICATE PLAIN
> S: A01 NO encryption needed to use mechanism
> Authentication failed. generic failure
> Security strength factor: 0
>
> and the logfile shows:
> Dec  8 12:33:35 soho imap[52411]: badlogin: localhost [127.0.0.1] PLAIN
> [SASL(-16): encryption needed to use mechanism: security flags do not
> match required]
>
>
> imapd.conf:
> configdirectory: /var/imap
> partition-default: /var/spool/imap
> servername: soho
> singleinstancestore: true
> hashimapspool: true
> fulldirhash: true
> admins: admin
> sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
> sasl_minimum_layer: 0
> sasl_maximum_layer: 1
> sasl_mech_list: PLAIN
>
> I don't need strong encryption. The password is not stored as plaintext
> in the ldap database.
>
> Do you need more informationen? Can anyone help me with this problem?

Try adding:

# Allow plaintext logins by default (SASL PLAIN)
allowplaintext: yes

to your imapd.conf.

 	Andy
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