cannot authenticate to Sieve

[Andreas Winkelmann]

Am Tuesday 19 September 2006 20:35 schrieb Jean-Gabriel Duquesnoy:

> I have been following several threads concerning similar issues, but
> could not find the information which would have helped me solve the
> issue I am encountering. When using sivtest as follows:
> mail:/var/log # sivtest -a duke -u duke 192.168.0.5
> S: "IMPLEMENTATION" "Cyrus timsieved v2.2.12"
> S: "SASL" "PLAIN"
> S: "SIEVE" "fileinto reject envelope vacation imapflags notify
> subaddress relational comparator-i;ascii-numeric regex"
> S: OK
> Please enter your password:
> C: AUTHENTICATE "PLAIN" {24+}
> ZHVrZQBkdWtlAFNwb29reTc=
> S: NO "Authentication Error"
> Authentication failed. generic failure
> Security strength factor: 0
>
> in the logfile I found the following:
>
>  Sep 19 20:14:40 mail master[11029]: about to
> exec /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/timsieved
> Sep 19 20:14:40 mail sieve[11029]: executed

> Sep 19 20:14:40 mail sieve[11029]: sql_select option missing
> Sep 19 20:14:40 mail sieve[11029]: auxpropfunc error no mechanism
> available
> Sep 19 20:14:40 mail sieve[11029]: _sasl_plugin_load failed on
> sasl_auxprop_plug_init for plugin: sql

You have installed the sql-Auxprop Plugin. Either Deinstall it, or use a 
"sasl_sql_select: dummy" in your imapd.conf.

> Sep 19 20:14:40 mail sieve[11029]: accepted connection
> Sep 19 20:14:44 mail sieve[11029]: could not find auxprop plugin, was
> searching for '[all]'

Show your imapd.conf.

> Sep 19 20:14:44 mail saslauthd[4028]: pam_mysql - MySQL error (Can't
> connect to local MySQL server through socket
> '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.soc
> k' (2))

Is the MySQL Server running? Is the Path to the Socket 
(/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock) correct? What is with the Permissions? Is 
Cyrus-Imapd able to reach it?

> Sep 19 20:14:44 mail saslauthd[4028]: pam_unix_auth(sieve:auth):
> authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=
> user=duk
> e
> Sep 19 20:14:46 mail saslauthd[4028]: DEBUG: auth_pam:
> pam_authenticate failed: Permission denied
> Sep 19 20:14:46 mail saslauthd[4028]: do_auth         : auth failure:
> [user=duke] [service=sieve] [realm=jgduke.dnsalias.com] [mech=pam] [r
> eason=PAM auth error]

> Sep 19 20:14:46 mail sieve[11029]: Password verification failed
> Sep 19 20:14:46 mail sieve[11029]: badlogin:
> mail.jgduke.dnsalias.com[192.168.0.5] PLAIN authentication failure
> Sep 19 20:14:53 mail master[15260]: process 11029 exited, status 0
> Sep 19 20:15:50 mail kernel: SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=
> SRC=192.168.0.5 DST=192.168.0.255 LEN=78 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64
> ID=
> 0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=137 DPT=137 LEN=58
> Sep 19 20:15:54 mail last message repeated 3 times
> Sep 19 20:15:55 mail kernel: SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=
> SRC=192.168.0.5 DST=192.168.0.255 LEN=211 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64
> ID
> =0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=138 DPT=138 LEN=191
> Sep 19 20:16:13 mail master[11056]: about to
> exec /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/timsieved
> Sep 19 20:16:13 mail sieve[11056]: executed
> Sep 19 20:16:13 mail sieve[11056]: sql_select option missing
> Sep 19 20:16:13 mail sieve[11056]: auxpropfunc error no mechanism
> available
> Sep 19 20:16:13 mail sieve[11056]: _sasl_plugin_load failed on
> sasl_auxprop_plug_init for plugin: sql
> Sep 19 20:16:13 mail sieve[11056]: accepted connection
> Sep 19 20:16:18 mail sieve[11056]: could not find auxprop plugin, was
> searching for '[all]'
> Sep 19 20:16:18 mail saslauthd[4027]: pam_mysql - MySQL error (Can't
> connect to local MySQL server through socket
> '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.soc
> k' (2))
> Sep 19 20:16:18 mail saslauthd[4027]: pam_unix_auth(sieve:auth):
> authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=
> user=duk
> e
> Sep 19 20:16:20 mail saslauthd[4027]: DEBUG: auth_pam:
> pam_authenticate failed: Permission denied
> Sep 19 20:16:20 mail saslauthd[4027]: do_auth         : auth failure:
> [user=duke] [service=sieve] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth erro
> r]
> Sep 19 20:16:20 mail sieve[11056]: Password verification failed
> Sep 19 20:16:20 mail sieve[11056]: badlogin:
> mail.jgduke.dnsalias.com[192.168.0.5] PLAIN authentication failure
> Sep 19 20:16:35 mail master[15260]: process 11056 exited, status 0
>
> Which settings are missing or wrong which could cause this? It seems
> some information on how to access the MySQL database is missing, but
> I do nto know which.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-- 
	Andreas