unable to login with cyradm

[Daniel Eckl]

Hi Joe!

Cyradm (or only your cyradm? Dunno...) might not be SSL capable.

So either use port 143 to connect or if you have to user IMAPS Port 993, 
then you could establish an ssl tunnel with stunnel program.

Best,
Daniel

Joe Harvell schrieb:
> Could someone *please* take a look at this?
> 
> Joe Harvell wrote:
>> I used cyradm a long time ago to set up two mailboxes, and now I need to
>> use it again, but I can't login:
>>
>> I am running cyrus-imapd 2.2.12.  I know that the latest 2.3 version
>> supports TLS with cyradm.  But I am not ready to upgrade.  I just want
>> to be able to run cyradm from the localhost.  Here is what happens when
>> I enter the cyradm command:
>>
>> jharvell at dingo ~ $ cyradm --user cyrus --server localhost --port 993
>> IMAP Password:
>>               jharvell at dingo ~ $
>>
>>
>> Here is my syslog:
>>
>> Jul 31 17:10:13 dingo master[18188]: about to exec /usr/lib/cyrus/imapd
>> Jul 31 17:10:13 dingo imaps[18188]: executed
>> Jul 31 17:10:13 dingo imaps[18188]: auxpropfunc error invalid parameter
>> supplied
>> Jul 31 17:10:13 dingo imaps[18188]: _sasl_plugin_load failed on
>> sasl_auxprop_plug_init for plugin: ldapdb
>> Jul 31 17:10:13 dingo imaps[18188]: sql_select option missing
>> Jul 31 17:10:13 dingo imaps[18188]: auxpropfunc error no mechanism available
>> Jul 31 17:10:13 dingo imaps[18188]: _sasl_plugin_load failed on
>> sasl_auxprop_plug_init for plugin: sql
>> Jul 31 17:10:13 dingo imaps[18188]: accepted connection
>> Jul 31 17:10:13 dingo imaps[18188]: imaps TLS negotiation failed:
>> localhost [127.0.0.1]
>> Jul 31 17:10:13 dingo imaps[18188]: Fatal error: tls_start_servertls()
>> failed
>> Jul 31 17:10:13 dingo master[31124]: process 18188 exited, status 75
>> Jul 31 17:10:13 dingo master[31124]: service imaps pid 18188 in BUSY
>> state: terminated abnormally
>>
>> And here is my imapd.conf:
>>
>> # $Header:
>> /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-mail/cyrus-imapd/files/imapd.conf,v 1.5 2
>> 004/08/27 06:02:45 langthang Exp $
>>
>> # Don't forget to use chattr +S (if you are using ext[23])
>> # when you change these directories (read the docs).
>> configdirectory:        /var/imap
>> partition-default:      /var/spool/imap
>> sievedir:               /var/imap/sieve
>>
>> tls_ca_path:            /etc/ssl/certs
>> tls_cert_file:          /etc/ssl/cyrus/dingo.x509.pem
>> tls_key_file:           /etc/ssl/cyrus/dingo.rsakeys.pem
>>
>> # Don't use an everyday user as admin.
>> admins:                 cyrus
>>
>> hashimapspool:          yes
>> allowanonymouslogin:    no
>> allowplaintext:         no
>>
>> # Allow renaming of top-level mailboxes.
>> #allowusermoves:         yes
>>
>> # Use this if sieve-scripts could be in ~user/.sieve.
>> #sieveusehomedir:       yes
>>
>> # Use saslauthd if you want to use pam for imap.
>> # But be warned: login with DIGEST-MD5 or CRAM-MD5
>> # is not possible using pam.
>> sasl_pwcheck_method:    saslauthd
>>
>> servername: dingo.dogpad.net.
>>
>> ####################################################
>> ## This is a recommended authentication method if you
>> ## emerge cyrus-sasl with 'postgres' or 'mysql'
>> ## To use with mysql database uncomment those lines below.
>>
>> #sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop
>> #sasl_auxprop_plugin: sql
>>
>> ## possible values for sasl_auxprop_plugin 'mysql', 'pgsql', 'sqlite'.
>> #sasl_sql_engine: mysql
>>
>> ## all possible values.
>> #sasl_mech_list: LOGIN PLAIN CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5 NTLM
>> ## or limit to CRAM-MD5 only
>> #sasl_mech_list: CRAM-MD5
>>
>> ## change below to suit your setup.
>> #sasl_sql_user: mailsqluser
>> #sasl_sql_passwd: password
>> #sasl_sql_database: mailsqldb
>> #sasl_sql_hostnames: localhost
>> #sasl_sql_select: SELECT clear FROM users WHERE email = '%u@%r'
>>
>> ----
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