cannot authenticate to server cyrus

[RYAN vAN GINNEKEN]

Hello again all i am still having problems creating mailboxes please help

#su cyrus
%whoami
cyrus
%cyradm localhost
IMAP Password:
             localhost.computerking.ca> whoami
cyrus
localhost.computerking.ca> cm user.test1000000000
createmailbox: Permission denied

this is happening in /var/log/messages
Sep  7 12:58:23 tokyo perl: No worthy mechs found
Sep  7 12:58:26 tokyo imap[5100]: no user in db
Sep  7 12:58:26 tokyo imap[5100]: login: localhost.computerking.ca [::1] 
cyrus plaintext User logged in

this in /var/log/auth.log
Sep  7 12:58:23 tokyo perl: No worthy mechs found
Sep  7 12:58:26 tokyo imap[5100]: no user in db

permissions on /var/imap 777 for testing
drwxrwxrwx  10 cyrus   cyrus     512 Sep  7 12:58 imap

permissions on /var/spool/imap 777 for testing
drwxrwxrwx   3 cyrus  cyrus   512 Sep  4 16:26 imap

I have the cyrus user in the db
test11 at tokyo.computerking.ca: userPassword
cyrus at tokyo.computerking.ca: userPassword
rmvg at tokyo.computerking.ca: userPassword

I have the cyrus user as an admin in /etc/imapd.conf
configdirectory: /var/imap
partition-default: /var/spool/imap
admins: rmvg cyrus
#sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop