Cannot connect with cyradm

Stuart Castergine scastergine at gmail.com
Thu May 5 22:24:32 EDT 2016


I am trying to set up a basic system with cyrus-imap and postfix on amazon
linux

I can connect using imtest, but cannot connect with cyradm:

Additionally, when I connect via a client with a user I know has mail, it's
saying that no INBOX exists. Postfix's mail spool is /var/spool/mail, but I
don't see anywhere to verify that imapd or lmtpd is looking there.

Sorry if these are dumb questions. I'm completely new to cyrus-imap and the
documentation at cyrusimap.org is extremely sketchy.

Any advice appreciated.

$ more /etc/imapd.conf
configdirectory: /var/lib/imap
partition-default: /var/spool/imap
admins: cyrus
sievedir: /var/lib/imap/sieve
sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail
hashimapspool: true
sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
sasl_mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN
tls_cert_file: /etc/pki/cyrus-imapd/cyrus-imapd.pem
tls_key_file: /etc/pki/cyrus-imapd/cyrus-imapd.pem
tls_ca_file: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt

$ grep MECH /etc/init.d/saslauthd
MECH=pam

$ imtest -t "" -u cyrus -a cyrus localhost
S: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ ID STARTTLS LOGINDISABLED
COMPRESS=DEFLATE] ip-172-31-1-214 Cyrus IMAP
v2.3.16-Fedora-RPM-2.3.16-6.9.amzn1 server ready
C: S01 STARTTLS
S: S01 OK Begin TLS negotiation now
verify error:num=18:self signed certificate
TLS connection established: TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256
bits)
C: C01 CAPABILITY
S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ ID AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN SASL-IR
COMPRESS=DEFLATE ACL RIGHTS=kxte QUOTA MAILBOX-REFERRALS NAMESPACE UIDPLUS
NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN MULTIAPPEND BINARY SORT SORT=MODSEQ
THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES ANNOTATEMORE CATENATE CONDSTORE
SCAN IDLE LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED X-NETSCAPE URLAUTH
S: C01 OK Completed
Please enter your password:
C: A01 AUTHENTICATE PLAIN Y3lydXMAY3lydXMAaGVsbC1oYXRoLW5vLWZ1cnk=
S: A01 OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ ID LOGINDISABLED
COMPRESS=DEFLATE ACL RIGHTS=kxte QUOTA MAILBOX-REFERRALS NAMESPACE UIDPLUS
NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN MULTIAPPEND BINARY SORT SORT=MODSEQ
THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES ANNOTATEMORE CATENATE CONDSTORE
SCAN IDLE LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED X-NETSCAPE URLAUTH] Success (tls
protection)
Authenticated.
Security strength factor: 256
. LIST "" "*"
. OK Completed (0.000 secs 1 calls)
. LOGOUT
* BYE LOGOUT received
. OK Completed
Connection closed.

$ cyradm --user cyrus --authz cyrus localhost
Login disabled.
cyradm: cannot authenticate to server with  as cyrus
$ cyradm --user cyrus --authz cyrus --auth pam localhost
verify error:num=18:self signed certificate
cyradm: cannot authenticate to server with pam as cyrus
$ cyradm --user cyrus --authz cyrus --auth shadow localhost
verify error:num=18:self signed certificate
cyradm: cannot authenticate to server with shadow as cyrus
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