Authentication problem

[Stephen Liu]

Hi folks,


On running;

$ su

# imtest -m login -p imap localhost
S: * OK lampserver Cyrus IMAP4 v2.2.12-Debian-2.2.12-4ubuntu1 server
ready
C: C01 CAPABILITY
S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ MAILBOX-REFERRALS
NAMESPACE UIDPLUS ID NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN MULTIAPPEND
BINARY SORT THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES ANNOTATEMORE IDLE
AUTH=NTLM AUTH=ANONYMOUS AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 AUTH=CRAM-MD5 SASL-IR
S: C01 OK Completed
Please enter your password: 
C: L01 LOGIN root {9}
S: + go ahead
C: <omitted>
S: L01 NO Login failed: generic failure
Authentication failed. generic failure
Security strength factor: 0
* end *

It hangs there.  I have to exit it manually;

C: Q01 LOGOUT
Connection closed.


Please advise where shall I check and how to fix the problem.  TIA


B.R.
Stephen L


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