replication : Authentication failed. no mechanism available

[Patrick H Radtke]

Looking a bit more at this:

Our sync server does advertise the correct mechanism

synctest -m PLAIN -t "" alpenwurst2
S: * SASL GSSAPI
S: * STARTTLS
S: * OK alpenwurst2.cc.columbia.edu Cyrus sync server v2.3-alpha
C: STARTTLS
S: OK Begin TLS negotiation now
verify error:num=19:self signed certificate in certificate chain
TLS connection established: TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)
S: * SASL PLAIN GSSAPI
S: * OK alpenwurst2.cc.columbia.edu Cyrus sync server v2.3-alpha
Please enter your password:

My quick guess is your only mechanism is PLAIN and since you didn't 
specify -t ""  to do a TLS connection, PLAIN is not being advertised. That 
leaves you with no mechanisms left and just the error.

Try the '-t ""' and maybe a '-m PLAIN' and let me know how it goes.

-Patrick




On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Patrice wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I try to install the the new version of cyrus-imap to use the replication.
>
> but I can't authenticate on my replica server:
>
> here is the error in the log:
>
> sync_client[26757]: couldn't authenticate to backend server: no mechanism 
> available
>
>
> here is the result of the synctest:
>
> S: * OK mailsrv Cyrus sync server v2.3.0
> Authentication failed. no mechanism available
> Security strength factor: 0
>
>
> it seems the auth mechs are not advertised
>
> I use saslauthd for my imap+pop auth and it works fine.
>
> there should be a special option for the advertising of mechs but I haven't 
> found the option
>
>
> Help would be appreciated
>
> thanks in advance
>
> Patrice
>
>
>
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