Authentication problem

Daniel Krawchuk dkrawchuk at mts.net
Wed Jun 18 22:23:22 EDT 2008 

Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> 
>>> I have the feeling you should add this to your imapd.conf:
>>>
>>> sasl_mech_list: PLAIN
>>>
>> I miss AUTH=LOGIN and AUTH=PLAIN
>> so "sasl_mech_list: PLAIN" will only cause that no auth mech
>> will be available.
> 
> 
> Performed following test;
> 
> 
> $ sudo nano /etc/imapd.conf
> adding;
> AUTH=LOGIN
> AUTH=PLAIN
> 
> at the bottom.
> 
> 
> $ imtest -m login -p imap -u satimiscyrus localhost
> just hanging there.
> 
> 
> Also tried uncomment the line;
> sasl_mech_list: PLAIN
> 
> 
> $ imtest -m login -p imap -u satimiscyrus 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
> S: C01 OK Completed
> Please enter your password: 
> C: L01 LOGIN satimis {12}
> S: + go ahead
> C: <omitted>
> S: L01 NO Login failed: generic failure
> Authentication failed. generic failure
> Security strength factor: 0
> 
> 
> Still the same result.
> 
> 
> 
>> Maybe a sasl package is not installed/found
>> ll /usr/lib/sasl2/ show for me
>>
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    22 2006-09-04 16:18 libanonymous.so ->  
>> libanonymous.so.2.0.21*
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    22 2006-09-04 16:18 libanonymous.so.2 ->  
>> libanonymous.so.2.0.21*
>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 13216 2006-06-16 16:40
>> libanonymous.so.2.0.21*
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    18 2006-09-04 16:18 liblogin.so ->  
>> liblogin.so.2.0.21*
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    18 2006-09-04 16:18 liblogin.so.2 ->  
>> liblogin.so.2.0.21*
>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 13724 2006-06-16 16:41 liblogin.so.2.0.21*
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    18 2006-09-04 16:21 libplain.so ->  
>> libplain.so.2.0.21*
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    18 2006-09-04 16:21 libplain.so.2 ->  
>> libplain.so.2.0.21*
>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 14268 2006-06-16 16:40 libplain.so.2.0.21*
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    19 2006-09-04 16:18 libsasldb.so ->  
>> libsasldb.so.2.0.21*
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    19 2006-09-04 16:18 libsasldb.so.2 ->  
>> libsasldb.so.2.0.21*
>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 18316 2006-06-16 16:40 libsasldb.so.2.0.21*
> 
> 
> $ ls -l /usr/lib/sasl2/
> total 500
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19036 2006-04-24 19:38 libanonymous.a
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   855 2006-04-24 19:38 libanonymous.la
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    22 2008-04-18 07:24 libanonymous.so ->
> libanonymous.so.2.0.19
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    22 2008-04-18 07:24 libanonymous.so.2 ->
> libanonymous.so.2.0.19
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15712 2006-04-24 19:38 libanonymous.so.2.0.19
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21802 2006-04-24 19:38 libcrammd5.a
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   841 2006-04-24 19:38 libcrammd5.la
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    20 2008-04-18 07:24 libcrammd5.so ->
> libcrammd5.so.2.0.19
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    20 2008-04-18 07:24 libcrammd5.so.2 ->
> libcrammd5.so.2.0.19
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19104 2006-04-24 19:38 libcrammd5.so.2.0.19
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 59792 2006-04-24 19:38 libdigestmd5.a
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   864 2006-04-24 19:38 libdigestmd5.la
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    22 2008-04-18 07:24 libdigestmd5.so ->
> libdigestmd5.so.2.0.19
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    22 2008-04-18 07:24 libdigestmd5.so.2 ->
> libdigestmd5.so.2.0.19
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46336 2006-04-24 19:38 libdigestmd5.so.2.0.19
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19262 2006-04-24 19:38 liblogin.a
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   835 2006-04-24 19:38 liblogin.la
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    18 2008-04-18 07:24 liblogin.so ->
> liblogin.so.2.0.19
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    18 2008-04-18 07:24 liblogin.so.2 ->
> liblogin.so.2.0.19
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16352 2006-04-24 19:38 liblogin.so.2.0.19
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38724 2006-04-24 19:38 libntlm.a
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   829 2006-04-24 19:38 libntlm.la
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    17 2008-04-18 07:24 libntlm.so ->
> libntlm.so.2.0.19
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    17 2008-04-18 07:24 libntlm.so.2 ->
> libntlm.so.2.0.19
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32264 2006-04-24 19:38 libntlm.so.2.0.19
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27142 2006-04-24 19:38 libotp.a
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   829 2006-04-24 19:38 libotp.la
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    16 2008-04-18 07:24 libotp.so ->
> libotp.so.2.0.19
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    16 2008-04-18 07:24 libotp.so.2 ->
> libotp.so.2.0.19
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48856 2006-04-24 19:38 libotp.so.2.0.19
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19342 2006-04-24 19:38 libplain.a
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   835 2006-04-24 19:38 libplain.la
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    18 2008-04-18 07:24 libplain.so ->
> libplain.so.2.0.19
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    18 2008-04-18 07:24 libplain.so.2 ->
> libplain.so.2.0.19
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16384 2006-04-24 19:38 libplain.so.2.0.19
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29164 2006-04-24 19:38 libsasldb.a
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   856 2006-04-24 19:38 libsasldb.la
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    19 2008-04-18 07:24 libsasldb.so ->
> libsasldb.so.2.0.19
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    19 2008-04-18 07:24 libsasldb.so.2 ->
> libsasldb.so.2.0.19
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21288 2006-04-24 19:38 libsasldb.so.2.0.19
> * end *
> 
> 
> B.R.
> Stephen
> 
> 
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If sasl_mech_list only has PLAIN in it then you can only use imtest -m 
plain because plain is the only mechanism that you are offering.

Dan Krawchuk

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