usernames with an "@" symbol

[Igor Brezac]

On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Mike O'Rourke wrote:

> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>> "Robin M." <robin at primus.ca> 02/08/04 09:12PM >>>
> Sorry if this made it two times
>
> Hi I am trying to get usernames with an @ symbol to work properly.
>
> My postfix, saslauthd, and ldap all work properly. I used the Invoca
> rpms
> of the 2.2.3 release.
>
> In my /etc/imapd.conf
> <snip>
> configdirectory: /var/lib/imap
> partition-default: /var/spool/imap
> admins: Administrator
> sievedir: /var/lib/imap/sieve
> sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
> hashimapspool: true
> sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
> sasl_mech_list: PLAIN
> tls_cert_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/cyrus-imapd.pem
> tls_key_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/cyrus-imapd.pem
> tls_ca_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt
> virtdomains: yes
> defaultdomain: draftmail.org
> </snip>
>
> When I try to log in to the cyrus imap server it truncates the @....
> portion of the login name i.e.
>
> [robin at pdc]# telnet localhost 143
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
> Escape character is '^]'.
> * OK mail.draftmail.org Cyrus IMAP4 v2.2.3-Invoca-RPM-2.2.3-4 server
> ready
> . login robin at draftmail.org secretpass
> . NO Login failed: authentication failure
>
> [robin at pdc]# tail /var/log/ldap
> Feb  8 12:30:34 pdc slapd[23259]: conn=280 op=1 SRCH
> base="dc=draftmail,dc=org" scope=2 filter="(uid=robin)"
>
> Also when I deliver mail through lmtp via postfix cyrus writes the
> mailbox
> out as
> /var/spool/imap/r/user/robin
>
> and using cyradm
>
> [robin at pdc]# cyradm --user Administrator 127.0.0.1
> Password:
> localhost.localdomain> cm user.robin at draftmail.org
> createmailbox: Invalid mailbox name
> localhost.localdomain> cm user.test
> localhost.localdomain> quit
>
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

What does your saslauthd.conf look like?  You probably need to set
'ldap_filter: %U@%r'.  cyrus-sasl 2.1.17 splits fully a qualified usernam
to the user and realm portion before it is passed to saslauthd.

>
> Hi Robin,
>
> Do users that are not in your default domain work as expected? As I
> understand, the defaultdomain exists to "ease" the transition from older
> versions of Cyrus-IMAPD to the 2.2.x with virtual domain support. The
> theory being that any unqualified (read: pre-existing) user would be
> treated as being in the default domain (and, by extension, any user in
> the default domain would be treated as being unqualified.) If this is
> the case, Cyrus is behaving as expected: for users in your draftmail.org
> are treated as Cyrus has always treated those users so as to not break
> anything for them on an upgrade.
>
> Happily, a default domain is not required (if I remember a few posts
> here correctly). If yours is a new installation, remove the
> "defaultdomain" line from imapd.conf; however, you will need to create
> the domain with "mkimap -d draftmail.org" and re-create the users'
> mailboxes (or turn on usermoves in imapd and move them to the
> draftmail.org domain).

mkimap is no longer neccessary to run.  Directories are auto-created if
neccessary.

-- 
Igor
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