Cyrus + LDAP Suggestions/Help

[Igor Brezac]

On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Michael Nguyen wrote:

> Hi Igor,
>
> [snip]
>
>>> Here is /etc/saslauthd.conf
>>>
>>> ldap_servers: ldap://127.0.0.1
>>> ldap_search_base: dc=dev2,dc=test,dc=spam
>>> ldap_bind_dn: dc=dev2,dc=test,dc=spam
>>> ldap_password: secret
>>> ldap_scope: one
>>
>>> ldap_uidattr: userName
>>> ldap_filter_mode:  yes
>>
>> There are no such parameters in saslauthd.conf.
>
> Damnit.  I was following a How-To that I found using Google.
>
>>> ldap_filter: userName=%u
>>
>> What do you get in syslog (authlog)?
>
> I get these errors:
>
> Nov  6 20:03:17 dev2 pop3[15192]: DBERROR: reading /var/imap/db/skipstamp,
> assuming the worst: No such file or directory
> Nov  6 20:03:18 dev2 pop3[15192]: skiplist: recovered /var/imap/mailboxes.db
> (0 records, 144 bytes) in 1 second
> Nov  6 20:03:22 dev2 pop3[15192]: cannot connect to saslauthd server: No
> such file or directory

Is saslauthd running?

> Nov  6 20:03:22 dev2 pop3[15192]: badlogin: localhost.localdomain
> [127.0.0.1] plaintext michaeln SASL(-1): generic failure: checkpass failed
>

> These look like it's trying to grab the user from the Cyrus userdb and not
> LDAP.
>
> The entries I put in saslauthd.conf....where do they belong?  The
> imapd.conf?

saslauthd.conf

If saslauthd is running, you will need to specify sasl_saslauthd_path 
param in imapd.conf.

-- 
Igor
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