Replication: problems with synctest

[Alain Spineux]

On Nov 13, 2007 8:08 AM, Rich Wales <richw at richw.org> wrote:
> OK, so I decided to try what I described earlier (replication in both
> directions, with different users using different master servers) . . . .
>
> But now I'm running into an authentication problem.  One of my servers
> (my original replica) simply refuses to authenticate to the other one
> (my original master).
>
> I've double-checked the user name and password, and I know it's in the
> sasldb2.db file on the master, but authentication just will not work.
>
> I tried synctest to each server, and I can't connect to either server
> using synctest.  Examples ("whodunit" is my original master; "flipflop"
> is my original replica; and I've obscured the real authentication
> strings in the AUTHENTICATE commands):
>
> % synctest -u admin -m plain whodunit
> S: * SASL NTLM LOGIN PLAIN GSSAPI OTP DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5
> S: * STARTTLS
> S: * OK whodunit.richw.org Cyrus sync server v2.3.9
> Please enter your password:
> C: AUTHENTICATE PLAIN ***************************
> S: NO user not found
> Authentication failed. generic failure
> Security strength factor: 0
> C: EXIT
> Connection closed.
>
> % synctest -u admin -m plain flipflop
> S: * SASL CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5 GSSAPI LOGIN PLAIN NTLM
> S: * STARTTLS
> S: * OK flipflop Cyrus sync server v2.3.9
> Please enter your password:
> C: AUTHENTICATE PLAIN ***************************
> S: NO authentication failure
> Authentication failed. generic failure
> Security strength factor: 0
> C: EXIT
> Connection closed.
>
> What's especially weird is the first one (whodunit), which gave a
> "user not found" error, even though there IS an account named "admin"
> in the sasldb2.db on that machine.
>
> Any ideas what I might be doing wrong here?

Do you have virtdomains enable ?
Did you setup defaultdomain ?
Did you define user admin@$defaultdomain ?
Is $defaultdomain in loginrealms ?

Hope this help.

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