Cannot log into cyrus using IMAP

[Andreas Winkelmann]

Am Montag, 10. Mai 2004 07:23 schrieb Eric B.:

> I've just installed Postfix compiled with SASL2 and Cyrus-SASL / Cyrus-Imap
> onto a WBEL3 server.  I rebuilt both the cyrus-sasl and imap pkgs myself,
> so I am certain that they were built with the same version of db4.  When I
> try to test my cyrus-Imapd connection with "cyradm", I am failing.  I am
> getting an error "perl: No worthy mechs found.".  I'm somewhat new to all
> this, so am not sure what this means.  Any help will be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Right now, I have the following packages installed:
> cyrus-sasl-plain-2.1.18-1
> cyrus-sasl-2.1.18-1
> cyrus-sasl-gssapi-2.1.18-1
> cyrus-sasl-md5-2.1.18-1
> cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.18-1
> cyrus-imapd-utils-2.2.3-8
> cyrus-imapd-2.2.3-8
> postfix-2.1.1.1-1 (compiled for MySQL, sasl2, VDA)
>
>
> I am following the Postfix-Cyrus-Web-cyradm-HOWTO.  My command line is the
>
> following:
> > saslpasswd2 -c cyrus
> > Password: secret
> > Again (for verification): secret

Here you create a user in /etc/sasldb2...

> When I try to connect with cyradm:
> > cyradm --user cyrus --server localhost --auth plain
> > Password: secret
> > IMAP Password: secret
>
> I get the following errors in my /var/log/auth.log:

> May 10 00:47:21 linuxmail perl: No worthy mechs found
> May 10 00:52:01 linuxmail imap(pam_unix)[31961]: authentication failure;
> logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=  user=cyrus
> May 10 00:52:01 linuxmail saslauthd[31961]: pam_sm_authenticate called.

... but you are using saslauthd. These are two difrent storages.

> /var/log/maillog:
> May 10 01:12:50 linuxmail imap[31979]: accepted connection
> May 10 01:12:50 linuxmail master[32099]: about to exec
> /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/imapd
> May 10 01:12:50 linuxmail imap[32099]: executed
> May 10 01:13:00 linuxmail imap[31979]: badlogin: localhost.localdomain
> [127.0.0.1] PLAIN [SASL(-4): no mechanism available: security flags do not
> match required]
> May 10 01:13:11 linuxmail imap[31979]: badlogin: localhost.localdomain
> [127.0.0.1] plaintext cyrus SASL(-13): authentication failure: checkpass
> failed
>
> Like I said, I'm somewhat new to all this, so do not entirely understand
> what these log messages are telling me.  What does "No worthy mech found"
> mean?  Secondly, why would I get a pam_mysql: select returned an invalid
> encrypted password?  I'm trying to use plain passwords for the moment,
> until I am certain everything is working.  My passwords in my MySql DB are
> in plain text.

If your passwords are unencrypted in a mysql-db, you should use the 
sql-auxprop-plugin. In your plugin-dir should be a libsql.so*-Plugin. The 
available options are described in ./doc/options.html

-- 
	Andreas

---
Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus
Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu
List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html