cyrus imapd authentication problem

[Etienne Goyer]

David Carter wrote:
>> pam and when I run a saslauthdtest, it works fine.  My syslog give me 
>> an error like this: badlogin: localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] 
>> plaintext cyrus SASL(-1): generic failure: checkpass failed.  In my 
>> auth.log, I get cannot connect to saslauthd server: Permission 
>> denied.  Any ideas would be met with appreciation.

Make sure Cyrus can connect to the saslauthd socket.  Check the 
permission on /var/run/saslauthd.  In Debian, process that need to talk 
to saslauthd have to be in the sasl group.