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Old 10-21-2005, 08:59 PM   #1
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cyrus NO Login failed: authentication failure


I have been struggling to set-up a web/mail server in redhat rhel4. Since I am a pretty much newbie in server administration, my question may sound a little stupid. So forgive me.

I have created a user account by doing:

in /etc/mail/virtusertable. I add
info@mydomainname myuser

run the commond
makemap dbm /etc/mail/virtusertable < virtusertable

create a mailbox by
cyradm --user cyrus –auth plain localhost
cm user.myuser
quit

set a passwd for the user by
saslpasswd2 user.myuser
password xxxx
password xxxx

When I try to check an account(in case of imap), I get following error:
imtest -a myuser -m login -p imap -v localhost
S: * OK localhost.localdomain Cyrus IMAP4 v2.2.10-Invoca-RPM-2.2.10-1.RHEL4.1 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 STARTTLS LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED X-NETSCAPE
S: C01 OK Completed
Please enter your password:
C: L01 LOGIN myuser {6}
S: + go ahead
C: <omitted>
S: L01 NO Login failed: authentication failure
Authentication failed. generic failure
Security strength factor: 0


When I try to check an accont(in case of pop3), I get following error:
[root@localhost ~]# telnet localhost 110
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK localhost.localdomain Cyrus POP3 v2.2.10-Invoca-RPM-2.2.10-1.RHEL4.1 server ready <4090239478.1129942609@localhost.localdomain>
user myuser
+OK Name is a valid mailbox
pass sdflkj
-ERR [AUTH] Invalid login

In both case, I get invalid login error.

Could someone direct me to a right direction?
 
Old 10-23-2005, 07:04 AM   #2
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Is your saslauthd running?

Run
Code:
chkconfig --list saslauthd
to verify that it is started at boot time.

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Old 10-24-2005, 11:59 AM   #3
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Yes, saslauthd is running.
 
Old 10-24-2005, 01:32 PM   #4
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The strange thing is that I can login by using unix username and password. Is this normal?
 
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My /etc/imapd.conf contains (amongst others of course):
Code:
sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
sasl_mech_list: pam
 
Old 10-24-2005, 05:57 PM   #6
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Hi,

My imapd.conf had following. I have also tried pam, but didn't work. I am completely stuck.

sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd
sasl_mech_list: PLAIN
 
Old 10-24-2005, 09:15 PM   #7
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cyrus NO Login failed: authentication failure

Would that be any difference if I have virtual domains?

thanks
 
  


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