Cyrus authentication failed

[Andreas Winkelmann]

Am Tuesday 03 October 2006 11:40 schrieb 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.

You didn't answer how do you start saslauthd.

# ps aux|grep saslauthd

for example.

> 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

"cvt_" = Convert.

To restore mailboxes.db use "ctl_mboxlist".

$ man ctl_mboxlist
...
       -u     Load the contents of the database from standard input.  The 
input MUST be in the format output using the -d option.  NOTE: Both  the  old
              and new formats can be loaded, but the old format will break 
remote mailboxes.
...

> 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.
> >
> > --
> > 	Andreas
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-- 
	Andreas