cyrus password no longer authenticates to server

[Simon Matter]

> I had a working cyrus-imapd installation and had successfully added
> an account in the following way.
>
> # First set password for cyrus account
> saslpasswd cyrus

With your config below, I don't thing you are using sasldb. So why set a
password in sasldb/sasldb2?

>
> # Using the cyrus account i initially used the command line below to
> create an initial account.
> cyradm -u cyrus mydomain.com
> mydomain>cm myself

With your config below, I think you may wynt to create a mailbox with
cm user.myself

> mydomain>exit
>
> # Today i attempted to create another mailbox and got the following
> error.
> myself at sand ~ $ cyradm -user cyrus mydomain.com

I'm quite sure you have changed your config now.

> IMAP Password:
>                Login failed: authentication failure at /usr/lib/perl5/
> site_perl/5.8.6/i686-linux/Cyrus/IMAP/Admin.pm line 118
> cyradm: cannot authenticate to server with  as cyrus
>
> # The /var/log/messages file just reiterates the failure to
> authenticate so really doesn't tell me anything i didn't know

And what does it tell you?

In fact I don't think anybody can help you with this kind of information.

Simon

>
> # I have reset/recreated the cyrus account and password with the
> saslpasswd2 command but i continue to get the error above though i
> know i am using the correct password i just can't authenticate to the
> server mydomain.com
>
> Can anyone give me some pointers as to what might need to be done in
> order for me to be able to login to mydomain.com using the cyrus
> account?
>
> Here is my /etc/imapd.conf
>
> # Use this if sieve-scripts could be in ~user/.sieve.
> #sieveusehomedir:       yes
>
> # Use saslauthd if you want to use pam for imap.
> # But be warned: login with DIGEST-MD5 or CRAM-MD5
> # is not possible using pam.
> sasl_pwcheck_method:    saslauthd
> lmtp_downcase_rcpt:     yes
>
> ####################################################
> ## This is a recommended authentication method if you
> ## emerge cyrus-sasl with 'postgres' or 'mysql'
> ## To use with mysql database uncomment those lines below.
>
> #sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop
> #sasl_auxprop_plugin: sql
>
> ## possible values for sasl_auxprop_plugin 'mysql', 'pgsql', 'sqlite'.
> #sasl_sql_engine: mysql
>
> ## all possible values.
> sasl_mech_list: PLAIN
> ## or limit to CRAM-MD5 only
> #sasl_mech_list: CRAM-MD5
>
> ## change below to suit your setup.
> sasl_sql_user: mailsqluser
> sasl_sql_passwd: password
> sasl_sql_database: mailsqldb
> sasl_sql_hostnames: localhost
> sasl_sql_select: SELECT clear FROM users WHERE email = '%u@%r'
>
> Thanks in Advance for any help!
>
> Michael W. Partyka
> Jumpnode Systems, LLC
> Systems Administrator
> 612.605.5056 Desk
>


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