Trouble with cyrus-imap + saslauthd + pam_mysql

Simon Matter simon.matter at ch.sauter-bc.com
Wed Jul 27 02:15:21 EDT 2005


> Jim Bartus wrote:
>   > What am I doing wrong here?  Should I have a different table structure
>> in mysql?  Is there some config change I need to make to get it to *not*
>> breakup the username?  Why does testsaslauthd work and nothing else?
>
> Bit of a development.  I read somewhere that adding the "-r" flag when
> saslauthd is run prevents breaking up the username so I put this in
> /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd
> -------------------------------------
> FLAGS=-r
> -------------------------------------
>
> - using "testsaslauthd" it works same as always
>
> - using "cyradm --user john at foo.org localhost" now produces a slightly
> different error

Could you try "cyradm --user=john at foo.org --auth=login localhost"

HTH,
Simon

> -------------------------------------
> saslauthd[19094]: SELECT pass FROM accounts WHERE user='john at foo.org'
> saslauthd[19094]: returning 7 .
> saslauthd[19094]: returning 7 after db_checkpasswd.
> saslauthd[19094]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=john at foo.org]
> [service=imap] [realm=foo.org] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM au
> th error]
> -------------------------------------
>
> So at least I know the "-r" flag is working as advertized... its just
> not solving my problem (or is causing another one).
>
> Here's the interesting part, logging in with an IMAP client *claims to
> work*
> -------------------------------------
> saslauthd[19088]: SELECT pass FROM accounts WHERE user='john at foo.org'
> saslauthd[19088]: sqlLog called.
> saslauthd[19088]: insert into log (msg, user, host, pid, time)
> values('AUTH SUCCESSFUL', 'john at foo.org', '', '19088', NOW())
> saslauthd[19088]: Returning 0
> saslauthd[19088]: returning 0 .
> saslauthd[19088]: returning 0.
> saslauthd[19088]: pam_mysql: acct_mgmt called but not implemented. Dont
> panic though :)
> imap[19170]: cross-realm login john at foo.org denied
> -------------------------------------
> But then out of nowhere cyrus-imap decides its not a fan of the new "-r"
> flag (or so I interpret that, correct me if I'm wrong).
>
> So I'm back to the "What am I doing wrong here?" question.
>
> -jim
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