Can not login to Cyrus server

[Simon Matter]

> Hi,
>
>
>
> I am not able to login to Cyrus server. I had created some users on Cyrus
> server, but I am not able to login. I am getting following output:
>
> [root at adlinux imtest]# telnet adlinux imap
>
> Trying 10.88.45.33...
>
> Connected to adlinux (10.88.45.33).
>
> Escape character is '^]'.
>
> OK adlinux Cyrus IMAP4 v2.2.3-Red Hat 2.2.3-8.1 server ready
>
> a1 login cyrus cyrus
>
> a1 NO Login failed: generic failure
>
> a2 logout
>
> * BYE LOGOUT received
>
> a2 OK Completed
>
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
>
>
> Cyrus-master is listening on imap port. Following is the result:
>
> [root at adlinux imtest]# netstat -lnp --inet --inet6|grep 143
>
> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:143             0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
> 10135/cyrus-master
>
>
>
> Services are running properly:
>
> [root at adlinux imtest]# /sbin/service saslauthd status
>
> saslauthd (pid 10045 10044 10043 10041 10040) is running...
>
> [root at adlinux imtest]# /sbin/service cyrus-imapd status
>
> cyrus-master (pid 10135) is running...
>
>
>
> I am also not able to user cyradm. Getting following error:
>
> [root at adlinux imtest]# cyradm -u cyrus adlinux
>
> IMAP Password:
>
>
>
> Login failed: generic failure at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Cyrus/IMAP/Admin.pm
> line 118
>
> cyradm: cannot authenticate to server with  as cyrus

Try with something like
cyradm --user cyrus --auth login localhost

and search the list archives for 'line 118' :)

Simon

>
> What can be the problem. Please guide.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Neelu.
>
>
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