Cannot connect with cyradm

Stuart Castergine scastergine at gmail.com
Fri May 6 07:55:25 EDT 2016


That did it, but why did I have to specify PLAIN? None of the docs mention
having to do that with a default install.


On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 2:16 AM, Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch> wrote:

> > 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
>
> What does it do if you run with "--auch PLAIN" instead?
>
> Regards,
> Simon
>
>
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