cannot authenticate to server cyrus

[RYAN vAN GINNEKEN]

I thought of that so i gave 777 permissions to that file tempirarly to 
to see if it should be cyrus or mail for the group here is the output of 
below command


 > /usr/local/lib/sasl2 #ls -lo /usr/local/etc/sasl*
-rwxrwxrwx  1 cyrus  mail  - 16384 Sep  4 17:28 /usr/local/etc/sasldb2.db

Scott M. Likens wrote:

>ls -lo /usr/local/etc/sasl*
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>More then likely it just can't open sasldb
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>On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 02:44:32 -0600
>RYAN vAN GINNEKEN <luck at computerking.ca> wrote:
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>>I have done all u suggested but still having problems
>>%cyradm localhost
>>IMAP Password:
>>               Login failed: user not found at
>>/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/mach/Cyrus/IMAP/Admin.pm line 118
>>cyradm: cannot authenticate to server with  as cyrus
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>>this is found in the auth.log file
>>Sep  4 17:57:49 tokyo perl: No worthy mechs found
>>Sep  4 17:57:55 tokyo imap[87817]: Could not open db
>>Sep  4 17:57:55 tokyo imap[87817]: Could not open db
>>Sep  4 17:57:55 tokyo imap[87817]: badlogin: localhost.computerking.ca
>>[::1] plaintext cyrus SASL(-13): user not found: checkpass failed
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>>here are some of my conf I have remove some of the mechs read
>>somewhere that it might help created cyrus.conf and Cyrus.conf the are
>>both the same not sure which one  i need
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>>tokyo.computerking.ca > /usr/local/lib/sasl2 #l
>>total 110
>>-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     64 Sep  4 17:46 Cyrus.conf
>>-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     26 Feb 17  2005 Sendmail.conf
>>-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     64 Sep  4 17:11 cyrus.conf
>>-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  12538 Feb 17  2005 liblogin.a
>>lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     13 Feb 17  2005 liblogin.so ->
>>liblogin.so.2 -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  15346 Feb 17  2005
>>liblogin.so.2 -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  12518 Feb 17  2005 libplain.a
>>lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     13 Feb 17  2005 libplain.so ->
>>libplain.so.2 -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  15244 Feb 17  2005
>>libplain.so.2 -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  18616 Feb 17  2005
>>libsasldb.a lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel     14 Feb 17  2005 libsasldb.so
>>-> libsasldb.so.2 -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  19867 Feb 17  2005
>>libsasldb.so.2
>>drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel    512 Sep  4 17:56 removed
>>-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    181 Aug 18  2004 smtpd.conf
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>>cyrus.conf and Cyrus.conf
>>pwcheck_method: auxprop
>>sasldb_path: /usr/local/etc/sasldb2.db
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>>sendmail.conf is this even being used i use postfix
>>pwcheck_method: saslauthd
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>>smtp.conf this was working with my postfix bincIMAP combo hope it
>>still does should i be using auxprop here too or will that break
>>postfix and bincIMAP
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>># This sets smtpd to authenticate using the saslauthd daemon.
>>pwcheck_method: saslauthd
>># This allows only plain and login as the authentication mechanisms.
>>mech_list: plain login
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>>I recompiled cyrus with
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>>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
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>>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
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>>!DSPAM:431c23f647831337897253!
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