cyradm - unable to authenticate server as cyrus

[Stephen Liu]

--- Mike Zupan <hijinks at gmail.com> wrote:

> is it possible you have any remote auth like ldap in place?

Hi Mike,


I'm running ssh here.  This is a headless server.  I have to configure
it remotely.  However this operation has be performed sometimes without
problem.


B.R.
Stephen


> 
> On 7/9/08, Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Nicolas,
> >
> >
> > Thanks for your advice.
> >
> >
> >
> > > In /etc/imapd.conf file you must add this line (reads the
> comments to
> > > understand what you make):
> > >
> > > # Uncomment the following and add the space-separated users who
> > > # have admin rights for all services.
> > > admins: cyrus
> >
> >
> >
> > This line already uncommented previously.  Otherwise "cyradm --user
> > cyrus localhost" won't work before.
> >
> >
> >
> > > # Space-separated list of users that have imapd "admin" status,
> in
> > > # addition to those in the admins: entry above
> > > imap_admins: cyrus
> >
> >
> >
> > Uncomment above line.
> >
> >
> > $ sudo /etc/init.d/cyrus2.2 restart
> > Stopping Cyrus IMAPd: cyrmaster.
> > Waiting for complete shutdown....
> > Starting Cyrus IMAPd: cyrmaster.
> >
> >
> >
> > $ cyradm -user cyrus localhost
> > Password:
> > cyradm: cannot authenticate to server as cyrus
> >
> >
> >
> > Still fail.
> >
> >
> > $ tail /var/log/syslog
> > Jul  9 23:45:03 satimis cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb[4531]: archiving log
> file:
> > /var/lib/cyrus/db/log.0000000001
> > Jul  9 23:45:03 satimis cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb[4531]: archiving database
> > file: /var/lib/cyrus/mailboxes.db
> > Jul  9 23:45:03 satimis cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb[4531]: archiving log
> file:
> > /var/lib/cyrus/db/log.0000000001
> > Jul  9 23:45:03 satimis cyrus/ctl_cyrusdb[4531]: done checkpointing
> > cyrus databases
> > Jul  9 23:45:03 satimis cyrus/master[4527]: process 4531 exited,
> status
> > 0
> > Jul  9 23:45:30 satimis cyrus/master[4534]: about to exec
> >
> > /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/imapd
> >
> > Jul  9 23:45:30 satimis cyrus/imap[4534]: executed
> > Jul  9 23:45:30 satimis cyrus/imap[4534]: accepted connection
> > Jul  9 23:45:36 satimis cyrus/imap[4534]: badlogin:
> >
> > localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] DIGEST-MD5 [SASL(-13): user not
> > found: no secret in database]
> >
> > Jul  9 23:46:01 satimis /USR/SBIN/CRON[4536]: (root) CMD (cd
> >
> > /var/www/SugarCE-Full-5.0.0e; php -f cron.php > /dev/null 2>&1)
> > * end *
> >
> >
> >
> > I think the problem may be here;
> > Jul  9 23:45:36 satimis cyrus/imap[4534]: badlogin:
> >
> > localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] DIGEST-MD5 [SASL(-13): user not
> > found: no secret in database]
> >
> >
> >
> > $ tail /var/log/messages
> > Jul  9 23:38:01 satimis kernel: [   37.643909] IPv6 over IPv4
> tunneling
> > driver
> > Jul  9 23:38:02 satimis kernel: [   39.876339] ppdev: user-space
> > parallel port driver
> > Jul  9 23:38:39 satimis kernel: [   77.087829] Installing knfsd
> >
> > (copyright (C) 1996 okir at monad.swb.de).
> >
> > Jul  9 23:38:39 satimis kernel: [   77.206053] NFSD: Using
> >
> > /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery directory
> >
> > Jul  9 23:38:39 satimis kernel: [   77.206070] NFSD: recovery
> directory
> >
> > /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery doesn't exist
> >
> > Jul  9 23:38:39 satimis kernel: [   77.206073] NFSD: starting
> 90-second
> > grace period
> > Jul  9 23:38:43 satimis squid[4313]: Squid Parent: child process
> 4315
> > started
> > Jul  9 23:38:45 satimis kernel: [   82.765973] ip_tables: (C)
> 2000-2002
> > Netfilter core team
> > Jul  9 23:38:45 satimis kernel: [   82.959424] Netfilter messages
> via
> > NETLINK v0.30.
> > Jul  9 23:38:45 satimis kernel: [   82.972513] ip_conntrack version
> 2.4
> >
> > (4095 buckets, 32760 max) - 312 bytes per conntrack
> >
> > * end *
> >
> >
> > Nothing specific here.
> >
> >
> >
> > B.R.
> > Stephen L
> >
> >
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