cyradm cannot connect to cyrus imap server

[Scott Lambert]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:35:42AM +0100, Willy Offermans wrote:
> Dear Cyrus Friends,
>
> I need your help to solve the following:
>
> I'm setting up cyrus on my new FreeBSD 10.0 server. I have used the following
> package: cyrus-imapd24-2.4.17_4
>
> If I test my setup with imtest, I get connection to the imap server.
>
> MyName at MyComputer:~$ imtest -m login -u username -a username -s localhost
>
> <It works>
>
> However, if I try to connect via cyradm, I cannot login.
>
> MyName at MyComputer:~$ cyradm --user username localhost
> Password:
> verify error:num=19:self signed certificate in certificate chain
> cyradm: cannot authenticate to server with  as username
>

You specified your authentication mechanism to be "login" with imtest.

You did not specify an authentication mechanism with cyradm.

Perhaps it would work if you try :

cyradm --auth login --user username localhost

That is only a guess.

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Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
lambert at lambertfam.org