cyradm login

[Patrick Radtke]

Can you post what you are using as arguments for
cyradm
imtest

and what capabilities the server advertises with imtest

and also the
output from testsaslauthd
when testing the cyrus username/password.


thanks,

Patrick

On Oct 21, 2005, at 9:35 AM, Jt Chiodi wrote:

>>
>> Jt Chiodi wrote:
>>
>>> I am having trouble logining in as cyrus to cyradm.  I can login  as
>>> regular user but I get this message if I login as cyrus
>>>
>>> IMAP Password:Login failed: authentication failure at
>>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/Cyrus/IMAP/ 
>>> Admin.pm
>>> line 118
>>> cyradm: cannot authenticate to server with plain as cyradm
>>>
>>>
>>> if I do an imtest as cyrus, i get Authenticated.
>>> ----
>>> Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus
>>> Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu
>>> List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
>>>
>>
>> hmmm ... 'plain'.  are you, by any chance, attempting to auth to  
>> cyradm over TLS?
>>
>> cyradm, apparently, does not support auth over TLS.  i'd struggled  
>> with this same issue for a
>> bit -- finally finding this approach:
>>
>> http://asg.web.cmu.edu/archive/message.php?mailbox=archive.info- 
>> cyrus&msg=36999
>>
>> that works.
>>
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> No, I am not trying to auth to cyradm.  I am not doing any encryption.
>  plain text passwords authenticating through pam to a mysql database.
> regular users are working fine.  it is just the cyrus account that
> can't login.  when I do the imtest with the password for the cyrus
> account it says authenticated, but when I run cyradm I get the above
> error.
>
> thanks,
>  jt
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