PAM (Red Hat) saslauthd, and Cyrus IMAP

[Ken Murchison]

Prentice Bisbal wrote:

> I'm having trouble authenticating to Cyrus IMAP. After having problems
> with salsdb2 and auxprop, I"m now trying to use saslauthd and pam so I
> can use the users' password from NIS.
> 
> I can authenticate as myself, the cyrus admin, and the mupdate user fine
> with the cyradm command, but when I try to use imtest or connect from an
> IMAP mail client, I get reject, with the following entries in
> /var/log/auth.log
> 
> Mar 10 15:40:18 pdb-mail-1 saslauthd[11318]: do_auth         : auth
> failure: [user=mupdate] [service=mupdate] [realm=] [mech=pam]
                                    ^^^^^^^^

You need to create a PAM config file for each service.

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