Unable to login

[Patrick Radtke]

You have the -u and -a parameters mixed up.

You want to authenticate (-a) as 'cyrus' and be authorized (-u) as USER.

In your imapd.conf file you have

> sasl_mech_list: PLAIN

So the only SASL mechanism that will be advertised by the server is 
PLAIN. It will only be advertised if you connect securely.

Try adding a -t ""  to you command line arguments as well.

To know what AUTH mech are available look at the output from imtest.

Example:
The first CAPABILITY call returns no AUTH mechanisms. Then we establish 
a TLS connection and issues the call again. Then we get the AUTH=PLAIN 
mechanism available.

--------------------
  imtest -a cyrus -u tc2154 -t "" -p imap localhost
S: * OK notdog.cc.columbia.edu Cyrus IMAP4 v2.3-alpha server ready
C: C01 CAPABILITY
S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ MAILBOX-REFERRALS 
NAMESPACE UIDPLUS ID NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN MULTIAPPEND 
BINARY SORT THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES ANNOTATEMORE IDLE 
STARTTLS
S: C01 OK Completed
C: S01 STARTTLS
S: S01 OK Begin TLS negotiation now
TLS connection established: TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)
C: C01 CAPABILITY
S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ MAILBOX-REFERRALS 
NAMESPACE UIDPLUS ID NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN MULTIAPPEND 
BINARY SORT THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES ANNOTATEMORE IDLE 
AUTH=PLAIN SASL-IR
S: C01 OK Completed
Please enter your password:


hope that helps,


-Patrick

On Jun 2, 2005, at 10:21 AM, Imran Aziz wrote:

> Thanks a lot for your response.
>
> That works perfectly fine for me, however using
>
> imtest -u cyrus -a USER -m login -p imap -v localhost
>
> The same details dont work.
>
> Any other pointers.
>
> How can I find out which authentication method is configured for my
> installation
>
> imtest docs say that supported methods are listed in the AUTH details
> displayed on login , but for my install there is no AUTH details.
>
> Imran.

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