Cyrus authentication failed

[mailing at scastagnoli.info]

After inserting:
sasl_mech_list: plain login

this is my telnet session:
0a010 login cyrus cyrus
0a010 NO Login failed: authentication failure
0a011 logout
* BYE LOGOUT received
0a011 OK Completed
Connection closed by foreign host.

I can correctly login as other users that worked before the line you
suggested me.

Another problem: I would make a backup of mails. I've made a copy of:
/var/spool/imap
/var/lib/imap
/var/lib/sieve
according to my /etc/inid.conf and also made a ctl_cyrusdb -d mb.txt as
cyrus user.
When I try to recover mailboxes.db with:
cvt_cyrusdb mb.txt flat mailboxes.db.stefano berkeley

I receive:
Sorry, you cannot use this tool with relative path names.
This is because some database backends (mainly berkeley) do not
always do what you would expect with them.

Please use absolute pathnames instead.


Where I'm going wrong?

Thanks a lot in advance

Stefano C.



> Am Tuesday 03 October 2006 00:06 schrieb mailing at scastagnoli.info:
>
>> 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
>
> sasl_mech_list: plain login
>
> is missing. Then test again with cyrus and "other" users. Do "other" users
> work anymore?
>
> Then show how you start saslauthd.
>
>> 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.
>
>> >> 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.
>
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