Question about some entries in my logs

[Ken Murchison]

Jason Williams wrote:

> Evening everyone.
> 
> I've been working with cyrus-imapd today, getting familiar with how it 
> works. I must say, it is very very cool. I like it a lot.
> 
> I should mention, im running FreeBSD 4.9, with cyrus 2.1.15, 
> cyrus-sasl-2.1.17, BerkeleyDB-4.1.25.
> I built cyrus out of the ports tree, so I could get a feel for 
> everything. I'm planning to build everything by hand, to have more 
> control and understand more of the underlying concepts.
> 
> Anyway, I was reading the docs on the cyrus web page and was reading the 
> part about testing cyrus. I have been able to login and authenticate to 
> ensure it is working correctly, but there is a entry in my log that I'm 
> not sure about. Here it is:
> 
> Jan  5 23:54:39 obsidianbox imapd[8015]: OTP unavailable because can't 
> read/write key database /etc/opiekeys: Permission denied
> Jan  5 23:54:43 obsidianbox imapd[8015]: no user in db

This error message is coming from the ndbm database backend for sasldb2. 
    If authentication is working, I'm not sure why you would be getting 
this message.

> Jan  5 23:54:43 obsidianbox imapd[8015]: login: localhost[::1] testuser 
> plaintext
> 
> The first line, I figured out by reading the FAQ. I needed to chown 
> /etc/opiekeys to the user 'cyrus'. That no long shows up in my logs.
> 
> However, the second field is my question. I'm not exactly sure why it is 
> appearing.
> 
> I have added my testuser to the sasldb2, using the appropriate commands.
> 
> Here is additional info for reference:
> 
> $ /usr/local/bin/imtest -m login -a testuser localhost

Just for the hell of it, if you try the following, does the error 
message go away?

$ /usr/local/bin/imtest -m login -a testuser -u testuser localhost

> 
> S: * OK obsidianbox.courtesy.com Cyrus IMAP4 v2.1.15 server ready
> C: C01 CAPABILITY
> S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ MAILBOX-REFERRALS 
> NAMESPACE UIDPLUS ID NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN MULTIAPPEND SORT 
> THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES IDLE AUTH=NTLM AUTH=OTP 
> AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 AUTH=CRAM-MD5
> S: C01 OK Completed
> 
> 
> If there is any other info I can provide to help, let me know.

What do your sasl_* options look like?

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