Sieve Authentication Fails - Resolved

[Simon Matter]

> OK, I'm not sure why this works, but if I su to the unix account which
> matches the mailbox name of the mailbox I'm trying to run sieveshell
> for....
> and it works just fine.  I had assumed I could be running as root, or
> another account I use to manage stuff.... and just pass in the username
> with
> a -u parameter.

I just tried it and it worked this way (as root):
sieveshell --user=simix --authname=simix localhost

Simon

>
> I only tried this because I installed the avelsieve squirrelmail plugin.
> Once installed, the plugin worked fine, so I knew authentication worked
> with
> sieve.  That's when it occurred to me to actually su to that unix account,
> and re-run sieveshell.
>
> Thanks for the help guys.  Appreciate it.
> Dan
>
>
>>From: Igor Brezac <igor at ipass.net>
>>To: Dan Perez <perezda_bulk at hotmail.com>
>>CC: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
>>Subject: Re: Sieve Authentication Fails
>>Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 14:30:07 -0500 (EST)
>>
>>
>>On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Dan Perez wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>>It has --authname and it works fine.  Check man pages.
>>>>Igor
>>>>---
>>>
>>>Sorry, unless I'm misunderstanding something... that's not it.
>>> According
>>>to the man pages --authname let's you pass in a  different username for
>>>authentication, it doesn't let you specify a mechanism...
>>>
>>
>>You are correct, you cannot pass a mechanism to sieveshell.  I
>> incorrectly
>>assumed that --auth in cyradm is an authentication username.
>>
>>--
>>Igor
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