cyrus 22 on Freebsd permission denied

[RYAN vAN GINNEKEN]

Simon Matter wrote:

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Sorry just made a reply mistake

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>>>>Hello i use freebsd 4.11 stable, have been using BINC IMAP and
>>>>cyrus-sasl-2.1.20_1 and cyrus-sasl-saslauthd-2.1.20_1 for imap and
>>>>postfix Authentication. BINC IMAP is a great little program but does not
>>>>have the support for virtual users that i need or the robustness of
>>>>cyrus.
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>>>>Recently I been trying to get cyrus-imapd-2.2.12_1 with berkly
>>>>db43-4.3.28 on my freebsd box have followed the instructions to the
>>>>letter but when tried to run mkimap for the cyrus su it did not work so
>>>>just ran it from the regular su account that seemed to work fine.
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>>>>I login as cyrus su then run the command cyradm localhost  and then my
>>>>password everything seems to work fine on the command line.
>>>>However watching the auth.log i see this when i enter cyradm localhost
>>>>Aug 15 18:24:14 tokyo imap[89348]: OTP unavailable because can't
>>>>read/write key database /etc/opiekeys: Permission denied
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>>>I think that's no problem because you don't use OTP anyway.
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>>>>Then this when i enter a password
>>>>Aug 15 18:25:03 tokyo imap[89348]: no user in db
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>>>>next i try to create a user like this createmailbox user.smith and get
>>>>createmailbox:permission denied all the time please help what am i doing
>>>>wrong?
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>>>Are you logged in as rmvg? If yes, then I guess it may still be a
>>>permission problem on the file level. Is your cyrus group really cyrus?
>>>It's mail very often.
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>>i think i am logged on a su cyrus arent i? see below
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>>localhost.computerking.ca> createmailbox user.test
>>createmailbox: Permission denied
>>localhost.computerking.ca> whoami
>>cyrus
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>No. whoami tells you that you did call cyradm as user cyrus. It doesn't
>tell us that you logged in to cyrus as user cyrus. You have to specify the
>user with cyradm --user xxx.
>And then, your config shows that your cyrus admin is 'rmvg'. So, did you
>login with cyradm as user 'rmvg'?
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cyradm --user rmvg localhost
Password:
cyradm: cannot authenticate to server with  as rmvg
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I used the password i setup for cyrus user and also the rmvg user but 
get the same error

>>I do have a user named cyrus
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>>cyrus:*:60:60:the cyrus mail server:/usr/local/cyrus:/bin/csh
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>>I do not  have a cyrus group so i will try mail my mail group looks like
>>this do i need to add cyrus to it too
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>You already have a group named cyrus. Why then does your ls of /var/imap
>show the files belonging to user and group cyrus?
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I do not know that is what it said to do in the install-configure file 
what should it be?

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>>mail:*:6:postfix,clamav
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>>have changed permissions of /var/imap and /var/spool/imap to mail group
>>cyrus user and still cyrus will not create users
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>>I added the cyrus user to the mail group and still get the same
>>permission denied message like above
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>>mail:*:6:postfix,clamav,cyrus
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>>>Simon
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>>>>Have added the following to my /etc/syslog.conf but have an empty
>>>>imapd.log the auth.log stuff seems to work ok.
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>>>>local6.debug                                    /var/log/imapd.log
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>>>>here are a list or permissions for my directories
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>>>>inside /var
>>>>drwxr-x---  10 cyrus   cyrus     512 Aug 15 18:09 imap
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>>>>inside /var/imap
>>>>-rw-------  1 cyrus  cyrus    144 Aug 12 00:09 annotations.db
>>>>drwxr-xr-x  2 cyrus  cyrus    512 Aug 12 00:09 db
>>>>drwx------  2 cyrus  cyrus    512 Aug 15 18:09 db.backup1
>>>>drwx------  2 cyrus  cyrus    512 Aug 15 17:39 db.backup2
>>>>-rw-------  1 cyrus  cyrus  32768 Aug 12 04:00 deliver.db
>>>>drwxr-xr-x  2 cyrus  cyrus    512 Aug 12 00:02 log
>>>>-rw-------  1 cyrus  cyrus    144 Aug 15 18:29 mailboxes.db
>>>>drwxr-xr-x  2 cyrus  cyrus    512 Aug 12 00:02 msg
>>>>drwxr-xr-x  2 cyrus  cyrus    512 Aug 15 18:30 proc
>>>>drwxr-xr-x  2 cyrus  cyrus    512 Aug 12 00:02 ptclient
>>>>drwxr-xr-x  2 cyrus  cyrus    512 Aug 12 00:36 socket
>>>>-rw-------  1 cyrus  cyrus  32768 Aug 12 04:00 tls_sessions.db
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>>>>inside /var/spool
>>>>drwxr-x---   3 cyrus  cyrus   512 Aug 12 00:02 imap
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>>>>inside /var/spool/imap
>>>>drwxr-xr-x  2 cyrus  cyrus  512 Aug 12 00:02 stage.
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>>>>here are the contents of my imap.conf
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>>>>configdirectory: /var/imap
>>>>partition-default: /var/spool/imap
>>>>admins: rmvg
>>>>sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
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>>>>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
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