[ Re: why does salspasswd2 always append a realm?]

[Marten Lehmann]

Hello,

> I'm sorry, but this statement parses as nonsense.  You have saslauthd 
> running but it isn't used, and you have auxprop listed even though you 
> don't have an auxprop.  How exactly are you being authenticated?

there seems to be a default auxprop, because saslauthd was configured to 
use pam, not sasldb2.

> And have you tried reading the logs?  There is nothing mystical here -- 
> everything is logged, including how your login and realm are parsed for 
> authentication.

There is a lot of mystical in Cyrus, especially because it lacks 
sufficient documentation. I know that programmers don't like to document 
what they worked on, but for new users it is very hard and cumbersome to 
get the information and examples that are required to understand Cyrus 
at least partially from widespread mailinglist posts, some outdated 
howtos in the web and some cyrus manpages.

Regards
Marten