Cyrus Imap Authentication Problems

[lartc]

hi,

try installing the sasl authentification packages ... i had the same
thing ...



cyrus-sasl-md5
cyrus-sasl-plain
cyrus-sasl-ntlm
cyrus-sasl-gssapi

"plain" is the minimum install ...

cheers

chalres

On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 21:31 +0200, evildad wrote:
> HI there, 
> i'd like to set-up an working IMAP Server on my Gentoo
> System. I used the Postfix-Cyrus-Web-cyradm-HOWTO from
> http://www.delouw.ch/linux/Postfix-Cyrus-Web-cyradm-HOWTO/html/index.html
> 
> Because I use Gentoo, I compiled all the packages
> with the „emerge“ command. Here are the versions for
> my installed packages:
> 
> cyrus-sasl-2.1.21-r1  
> cyrus-imapd-2.2.12  
> postfix-2.1.5-r2  
> pam_mysql-0.6.0  
> mysql-4.0.25-r2 
> web-cyradm-0.5.4.1 
> 
> 
> They all compiled without errors but after i wanted to
> create the user cyrus with the command
> 
> # saslpasswd2 -c cyrus
> Password:
> Again (for verification):
> 
> 
> ... the following errors appear in /var/log/messages:
> 
> Sep 25 17:21:01 evildad saslpasswd2: sql_select option
> missing
> Sep 25 17:21:01 evildad saslpasswd2: auxpropfunc error
> no mechanism available
> Sep 25 17:21:01 evildad saslpasswd2: _sasl_plugin_load
> failed on sasl_auxprop_plug_init for plugin: sql
> Sep 25 17:21:05 evildad saslpasswd2: setpass succeeded
> for cyrus
> Sep 25 17:21:05 evildad saslpasswd2: error deleting
> entry from sasldb: DB_NOTFOUND: No matching key/data
> pair found
> Sep 25 17:21:05 evildad saslpasswd2: error deleting
> entry from sasldb: DB_NOTFOUND: No matching key/data
> pair found
> Sep 25 17:21:05 evildad saslpasswd2: error deleting
> entry from sasldb: DB_NOTFOUND: No matching key/data
> pair found
> 
> 
> I don't understand why sasl won't find the DB. 
> 
> Another Problem is the command to connect to the
> Server.
> 
> When i type in the following command to the Server I
> get the following output:
> 
> # cyradm --user cyrus --server localhost --auth plain
> Password:
> IMAP Password:
>               Login failed: authentication failure at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/x86_64-linux/Cyrus/IMAP/Admin.pm
> line 118
> cyradm: cannot authenticate to server with plain as
> cyrus
> 
> 
> and in /var/log/messages:
> 
> Sep 25 21:18:26 evildad master[7102]: about to exec
> /usr/lib/cyrus/imapd
> Sep 25 21:18:26 evildad imap[7102]: executed
> Sep 25 21:18:26 evildad imap[7102]: sql auxprop plugin
> using mysql engine
> Sep 25 21:18:26 evildad imap[7102]: accepted
> connection
> Sep 25 21:18:37 evildad imap[7102]: badlogin:
> localhost [127.0.0.1] PLAIN [SASL(-16): encryption
> needed to use mechanism: security flags do not match
> required]
> Sep 25 21:18:40 evildad perl: No worthy mechs found
> Sep 25 21:18:44 evildad imap[7102]: sql plugin Parse
> the username cyrus
> Sep 25 21:18:44 evildad imap[7102]: sql plugin try and
> connect to a host
> Sep 25 21:18:44 evildad imap[7102]: sql plugin trying
> to open db 'mail' on host 'localhost'
> Sep 25 21:18:44 evildad imap[7102]: sql plugin Parse
> the username cyrus
> Sep 25 21:18:44 evildad imap[7102]: sql plugin try and
> connect to a host
> Sep 25 21:18:44 evildad imap[7102]: sql plugin trying
> to open db 'mail' on host 'localhost'
> Sep 25 21:18:44 evildad saslauthd[6930]: DEBUG:
> auth_pam: pam_acct_mgmt failed: User account has
> expired
> Sep 25 21:18:44 evildad saslauthd[6930]: do_auth      
>   : auth failure: [user=cyrus] [service=imap] [realm=]
> [mech=pam] [reason=PAM acct error]
> Sep 25 21:18:44 evildad imap[7102]: badlogin:
> localhost [127.0.0.1] plaintext cyrus SASL(-13):
> authentication failure: checkpass failed
> Sep 25 21:19:47 evildad master[20809]: process 7102
> exited, status 0
> 
> 
> Hope anyone can help me to get the authentication
> work...
> And i don't know why the User account has been expired
> though it has never worked before...
> 
> Thanks in advance, 
> Evildad
> 
> 
> 
> 
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