Cyrus authentication failed

[mailing at scastagnoli.info]

Thanx a lot!
My imapd.conf is:

configdirectory: /var/lib/imap
partition-default: /var/spool/imap
sievedir: /var/lib/sieve
admins: cyrus
allowanonymouslogin: no
autocreatequota: 10000
reject8bit: no
quotawarn: 90
timeout: 30
poptimeout: 10
dracinterval: 0
drachost: localhost
sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
lmtp_overquota_perm_failure: no
lmtp_downcase_rcpt: yes


I think I understand what you mean, but I've always used saspasswd2 -c
username, where username is an existing linux user, to create account for
Cyrus and it has always worked.

Stefano C.



> Am Monday 02 October 2006 18:36 schrieb mailing at scastagnoli.info:
>
>> I was trying to make some test over backing up and recovery a simple
>> IMAP
>> server inside a LAN.
>> First I have uninstalled cyrus-imapd and cyrus-sasl-saslathd RPMs from
>> my
>> SuSE 10.1.
>>
>> Second I've deleted cyrus user from my system.
>>
>> I overrided the folowing directories:
>> /var/spool/imap
>> /var/lib/imap
>> /var/lib/sieve
>> with the ones of te system I would recover.
>>
>> Then I've created a plaintext backup of mailboxes.db using (as root):
>> su -cyrus -c "ctl_mailboxlist -d" > mailboxlist.txt
>>
>> I've build a database from the plaintext using:
>> cvt_cyrusdb mailboxlist.txt
>>
>> Now I can connect to Cyrus with:
>> telnet localhost 143
>> as every user listed with:
>> sasldblistusers
>> except as cyrus.
>>
>> I think this is the source for strange messages I find in
>> /valr/log/messages like:
>> lmtpunix[21679]: IOERROR: fstating sieve script
>> /var/lib/sieve/u/utente/defaultbc: No such file or directory
>
> The User has no Sieve-Script. Either ignore these Errors or don't log
> DEBUG-Messages in Syslog.
>
>> My server IMAP can receive mails from inside and outside the LAN.
>> Anyway, it's unconfortable I receive:
>> 0: NO "authentication failed"
>>
>> for the command:
>>  testsaslauthd -u cyrus -p cyrus
>
> Above you tell something about sasldb, here you test with saslauthd. How
> did
> you configure saslauthd? Is it really configured to use sasldb?
>
> Show your imapd.conf.
>
> --
> 	Andreas
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