createmailbox: Permission denied - again ?

[Warrick FitzGerald]

Warrick FitzGerald wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>I’m having a problem with Cyrus that seems to haunt me from time to
>time. When logging in using cyradm to create accounts, I’m told
>“createmailbox: Permission denied“. The strange thing is that it seems
>to work sometime and then not others … I’m very confused about this (to
>say the least):
>
>I’ve read many posts that suggest that the user is not listed in admins:
>in /etc/imapd.conf – my user is.
>
>I’ve also read posts that suggest that it has something to do with file
>permissions … however this side of things also seems fine.
>
>Here are some examples of what I see. The first thing that confuses me
>is why I’m prompted for a login and password twice (see below).
>
>[root at livemail1 etc]# cyradm --user admin at domain.com --auth PLAIN localhost
>Password:
>IMAP Password:
>localhost> cm user.wfitzgerald at domain.com
>createmailbox: Permission denied
>localhost>
>
>as you can see I’ve created two mailboxes in here before
>
>localhost> lm
>user.chowson (\HasNoChildren) user.wreuvers.Sent (\HasNoChildren)
>user.wreuvers (\HasChildren) user.wreuvers.Trash (\HasNoChildren)
>user.wreuvers.Drafts (\HasNoChildren)
>
>running imtest seems to indicate that things are fine (as far as I can
>tell anyway)
>
>[root at LiveMail2 pam.d]# imtest -m login -a wfitzgerald at domain.com
>livemail1.domain.com
>S: * OK livemail1.domain.com Cyrus IMAP4
>v2.2.8-Mandrake-RPM-2.2.8-2.1010mdk 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 AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 AUTH=CRAM-MD5 SASL-IR LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED
>X-NETSCAPE
>S: C01 OK Completed
>Please enter your password:
>C: L01 LOGIN wfitzgerald at domain.com {13}
>S: + go ahead
>C: <omitted>
>S: L01 OK User logged in
>Authenticated.
>Security strength factor: 0
>. logout
>* BYE LOGOUT received
>. OK Completed
>Connection closed.
>
>I’d appreciate any ideas.
>
>Thanks
>Warrick
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>
I'm so pissed right now! - bet this has happened to many others also.

The list of admins supplied in /etc/imapd.conf is space separated NOT
comma separated

So stupid – hope the next idiot finds this post before he wastes that
same amount of time as I just did.

Cheers
Warrick FitzGerald

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