cyradmin login failed

[Simon Matter]

> Hi!!
>
> I intalled cyrus-imapd following the Luc's Howto, but I'm at the final
> part of the doc where it says:
>
> To use the cyradm CLI please take care that the tool does recognize
> standard CLI- options like -u and similar. Please follow the syntax like
> descried in the man page cyradm1 , like the followinf example:
>
> #cyadm --user cyrus --server localhost --auth plain
> Password:SASL2 password
> IMAP password: here I give a password that I have just introduced
>
> Then I received the following message:
>
> Login failed: authentication failure at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i586-linux-thread-multi/Cyrus/IMAP/Admin.pm
> line 118
> cyradm: cannot authenticate to server with plain as cyrus

Is saslauthd running? Is saslauthd configured properly?
Maybe you can find your answer in the list archives, this has been
discussed before.

Simon

>
> This is my imapd.conf
> postmaster: postmaster
> configdirectory: /var/imap
> partition-default: /var/spool/imap
> admins: cyrus
> allowanonymouslogin: no
> allowplaintext: yes
> sasl_mech_list: PLAIN
> servername: linux.local
> autocreatequota: 10000
> reject8bit: no
> quotawarn: 90
> timeout: 30
> poptimeout: 10
> dracinterval: 0
> drachost: localhost
> sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
> sievedir: /usr/sieve
> sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
> sieve_maxscriptsize: 32
> sieve_maxscripts: 5
> #unixhierarchysep: yes
>
> Please help me!!!
> Does anyone have any idea?
> Thank you
>
> Luis.
>


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