Cyrus Imap Authentication Problems

Mon Sep 26 04:33:14 EDT 2005

Hi,

First of all try to post this question to web-cyradm list, I'm too on their list and if you have further questions we'll try to help you.

It may be related to creation of the file /etc/pam.d/imap with the following entries:
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#%PAM-1.0
auth sufficient pam_mysql.so user=mail passwd=secret host=localhost db=mail table=accountuser usercolumn=username passwdcolumn=password crypt=1 logtable=log logmsgcolumn=msg logusercolumn=user loghostcolumn=host logpidcolumn=pid logtimecolumn=time sqllog=yes

# auth sufficient pam_unix_auth.so

account required pam_mysql.so user=mail passwd=secret host=localhost db=mail table=accountuser usercolumn=username passwdcolumn=password crypt=1 logtable=log logmsgcolumn=msg logusercolumn=user loghostcolumn=host logpidcolumn=pid logtimecolumn=time

# account  sufficient       pam_unix_acct.so
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Regards,
Leon Kolchinsky

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From: info-cyrus-bounces at lists.andrew.cmu.edu [mailto:info-cyrus-bounces at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of evildad
Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 10:31 PM
To: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Subject: Cyrus Imap Authentication Problems

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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