cyrus-imapd + sasl + ldap

[Igor Brezac]

On Wed, 10 May 2006, Rudy Gevaert wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have configured sasl 2.1.19 (the one that is in Debian) to use LDAP. This 
> works as my gives an OK:
>
> jura:/# testsaslauthd -u testuser1 at mail.ugent.be -p pass
> 0: OK "Success."
>
> saslauthd[4147] :do_auth         : auth success: 
> [user=testuser1 at mail.ugent.be] [service=imap] [realm=] [mech=ldap]
> saslauthd[4147] :do_request      : response: OK
>
> And this doesn't work.
>
> jura:/# testsaslauthd -u testuser1 -r mail.ugent.be -p pass
> 0: NO "authentication failed
>
> saslauthd[4145] :get_accept_lock : acquired accept lock
> saslauthd[4147] :rel_accept_lock : released accept lock
> saslauthd[4147] :do_auth         : auth failure: [user=testuser1] 
> [service=imap] [realm=mail.ugent.be] [mech=ldap] [reason=Unknown]
> saslauthd[4147] :do_request      : response: NO
>
>
>
> I have configured cyrus-imapd's imapd.conf file with:
> sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
> and
> virtdomains: userid
>
> I would now suspect that when login into the imap server, would work. But it 
> doesn't.  I must have missed something.  E.g. I'm using mutt to access the 
> mailbox: mutt -f imap://mail1.ugent.be
> and enter testuser1 at mail.ugent.be als username.  This doesn't let me in.  I 
> see in the logs from sasl:
>
> saslauthd[4145] :rel_accept_lock : released accept lock
> saslauthd[4146] :get_accept_lock : acquired accept lock
> saslauthd[4145] :do_auth         : auth failure: [user=testuser1] 
> [service=imap] [realm=mail.ugent.be] [mech=ldap] [reason=Unknown]
> saslauthd[4145] :do_request      : response: NO
>
> As debug output of case 2 and 3 is the same, I think they are the same 
> problem.
>
>
> What do I need to do to get this working?

What are the contents of your saslauthd.conf?

-- 
Igor