cannot authenticate to server cyrus

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 13:14 -0600, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote:
> 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
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is cyrus at localhost the same as cyrus at tokyo.computerking.ca ?

I think not - try adding sasluser cyrus at localhost

I found it easier to make cyrus a local user (/etc/passwd), not an entry
in sasldb and not in ldap DSA

Craig