cannot authenticate to Sieve

[Jean-Gabriel Duquesnoy]

Am Dienstag, 19. September 2006 21:08 schrieb 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.
postmaster: postmaster
configdirectory: /var/lib/imap
partition-default: /var/spool/imap
sievedir: /var/lib/sieve
admins: cyrus
allowanonymouslogin: no
allowplaintext: yes
sasl_mech_list: PLAIN
servername: servername.domainname.com
autocreatequota: 10000
reject8bit: no
quotawarn: 90
timeout: 30
poptimeout: 10
dracinterval: 0
drachost: 127.0.0.1
sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
#sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop
lmtp_overquota_perm_failure: no
lmtp_downcase_rcpt: yes
sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
sieve_maxscriptsize: 32
sieve_maxscripts: 5
sieve_sasl_minimum_layer: 0
sasl_minimum_layer: 1
autocreateinboxfolders: INBOX | INBOX.Trash | INBOX.Sent | 
INBOX.Drafts
autosubscribeinboxfolders: INBOX | INBOX.Trash | INBOX.Sent | 
INBOX.Drafts

#
# if you want TLS, you have to generate certificates and keys
#
#tls_cert_file: /usr/ssl/certs/cert.pem
#tls_cert_file: /etc/certs/imapd.pem
#tls_key_file: /usr/ssl/certs/skey.pem
#tls_ca_file: /usr/ssl/CA/CAcert.pem
#tls_ca_path: /usr/ssl/CA


>
> > 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?
>
The path is a different one, but where do I set this for sieve? Imap, 
Potsfix, Cyrus and eGroupware are able to access the MySQL database.

> > 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.

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