Sieve authentication problem

[Andreas Winkelmann]

Am Saturday 09 September 2006 12:38 schrieb Achim Lammerts:

> do I get some help about Sieve here too? Some days ago I've added
> authentication by sasldb and today I saw that Sieve doesn't work
> anymore. I can't login to sieveshell from root like "sieveshell --user
> mailuser --authname mailuser localhost", the correct password is not
> accepted. There are these entries in the log file:
>
>
> Sep  9 12:25:44 salamucha master[7088]: about to exec
> /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/timsieved
> Sep  9 12:25:44 salamucha sieve[7088]: executed
> Sep  9 12:25:44 salamucha sieve[7088]: accepted connection
> Sep  9 12:25:49 salamucha PAM-warn[1066]: function=[pam_sm_authenticate]
> service=[sieve] terminal=[<unknown>] user=[mailuser] ruser=[<unknown>]
> rhost=[<unknown>]

But this is saslauthd/pam, which is queried, not sasldb.

Check your saslauthd/pam Configuration.

> Sep  9 12:25:49 salamucha PAM-warn[1066]: function=[pam_sm_acct_mgmt]
> service=[sieve] terminal=[<unknown>] user=[mailuser] ruser=[<unknown>]
> rhost=[<unknown>]
> Sep  9 12:25:49 salamucha sieve[7088]: transitioning user mailuser to
> auxprop database
> Sep  9 12:25:49 salamucha sieve[7088]: setpass succeeded for mailuser
> Sep  9 12:25:49 salamucha sieve[7088]: mkdir /var/lib/sieve/m/mailuser:
> File exists
> Sep  9 12:25:49 salamucha sieve[7088]: error in actions_setuser()
> Sep  9 12:25:49 salamucha perl: No worthy mechs found
> Sep  9 12:25:49 salamucha master[6160]: process 7088 exited, status 0
>
> The actual imapd.conf looks like this:
>
> ...
>
> sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd auxprop
> sasl_auxprop_plugin: sasldb
> sasl_auto_transition: yes
> sasl_mech_list: plain login
> ...
>
> Also avelsieve doesn't work correctly before I got this problem above,
> in the meantime I can't use avelsieve too of course (with a similar
> error message). That might be another question and not here, but I like
> to ask about the rights for the Sieve directory. It's set to 600 and the
> owner is cyrus:mail, is that right?

-- 
	Andreas