authentication and/or sieve problem?

[Andrew Morgan]

On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Simon Matter wrote:

>> Dan White wrote:
>>> On 28/10/09 00:47 -0700, Maria McKinley wrote:
>>>> ella:/var/log# testsaslauthd -u "test" -p "xxx" -s smtp
>>>> 0: OK "Success."
>>>> ella:/var/log# testsaslauthd -u "test" -p "xxx" -s imaps
>>>> 0: NO "authentication failed"
>>>> ella:/var/log# testsaslauthd -u "test" -p "xxx" -s imap
>>>> 0: OK "Success."
>>>
>>> Can you provide sanitized copies of the following?:
>>>
>>> Your saslauthd startup options (e.g. /etc/default/saslauthd)
>>
>> So, while copying file contents, I stumbled upon a missing file. I had
>> looked in pam.d a bunch of times, but until you asked me for the actual
>> contents, I had somehow overlooked that there was no imaps file. I
>
> I'm a bit confused because I never had a imaps config for PAM. Doesn't
> cyrus-imapd always use "imap" as service name for imap + imaps? If that's
> the case then it's no error that you testsaslauthd call mentioned above
> didn't succeed.

I always thought that it uses the service name from cyrus.conf (the first 
column on a service definition), but now that I look at my own systems I 
see that I am missing the /etc/pam.d/imaps file as well.  Go figure!

 	Andy