Unable to login

[Patrick Radtke]

Try it with testsaslauthd first to see if saslauthd is working 
correctly.

 >testsaslauthd -u cyrus -p password

0: OK "Success."

-Patrick
On Jun 2, 2005, at 8:47 AM, Imran Aziz wrote:

> Hello All,
>   I have finally managed to install Cyrus IMAP. But I am unable to
> login to the server to create new accounts.
>
> I am using this command
>
> /usr/local/bin/imtest -m login -a USER localhost
>
> but I get a authentication failure
>
> and my imapd.conf has this configuration
>
> configdirectory: /var/lib/imap
> partition-default: /var/spool/imap
> admins: cyrus
> sievedir: /var/lib/imap/sieve
> sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
> hashimapspool: true
> sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
> sasl_mech_list: PLAIN
> tls_cert_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/cyrus-imapd.pem
> tls_key_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/cyrus-imapd.pem
> tls_ca_file: /usr/share/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt
>
> I have changed the cyrus user password created on the OS to login
> using that, but it does not work. I am new to this, so dont know which
> authentication database I am using and how to manage it.
>
> Please kindly give me some tips how to manage the IMAP server.
>
> Thanks a lot.
> Imran.
>
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