Hello Yet I found not realy a solution for the attached problem but an other way. Now I use PAM (salslauthd -a pam) insted Kerberos5 (salslauthd -a kerberos5) in saslauthd. The problem seams to be around auth_krb5.c but my C knowledge is not good enough for solve the problem self. So if anybody has an interest to solve this, he can contact my. I then can explain him the problem detailed. Regards, ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Martin Schweizer <schweizer.martin@xxxxxxxxx> Date: 2009/8/5 Subject: Cyrus Imapd with SASL, authenticate against AD Windows 2003 with Kerberos5 To: cyrus-sasl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Hello My goal is to authenticate my Cyrus Imapd users against Windos 2003 Active Directory with Kerberos . I have the following setup: Kerberos5 client =========== FreeBSD acsvfbsd06.domain.tld 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE /etc/krb.conf: [libdefaults] default_realm = domain.tld default_etypes_des = des-cbc-md5 [realms] ACUTRONIC.CH = { kdc = tcp/acsv3k04.domain.tld:88 } [logging] kdc = SYSLOG:INFO:AUTH admin_server = SYSLOG:INFO:AUTH default = SYSLOG:INFO:AUTH /etc/krb5.keytab (ktutil list output): For the keytab file I followed: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb742433.aspx FILE:/etc/krb5.keytab: Vno Type Principal 1 des-cbc-md5 host/acsvfbsd06.domain.tld@xxxxxxxxxx I get tickets if I use kinit user: acsvfbsd06# kinit user martin@xxxxxxxxxx's Password: kinit: NOTICE: ticket renewable lifetime is 1 week klist: Credentials cache: FILE:/tmp/krb5cc_0 Principal: user@xxxxxxxxxx Issued Expires Principal Jul 31 17:58:09 Aug 1 03:57:44 krbtgt/DOMAIN.TLD@xxxxxxxxxx I an use ldapsearch as follows: acsvfbsd06# ldapsearch -v -LLL -b "OU=Mitgliedsserver,OU=ACH,DC=Domain,DC=tld" -h acsv3k04.domain.tld description ldap_initialize( ldap://acsv3k04.domain.tld) SASL/GSSAPI authentication started SASL username: user@xxxxxxxxxx SASL SSF: 56 SASL data security layer installed. filter: (objectclass=*) requesting: description dn: OU=Mitgliedsserver,OU=ACH,DC=Domain,DC=tld ... [snip] So far all looks well. For the Cyrus Imapd setup I run saslauthd -a kerberos5. /usr/local/etc/imapd.conf: configdirectory: /usr/imap/var/imap partition-default: /usr/imap/var/spool/imap virtdomains: yes admins:root cyrus sasl_option: 1 sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd sasl_mech_list: GSSAPI PLAIN LOGIN CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5 sasl_log_level: 7 lmtpsocket: /usr/imap/var/imap/socket/lmtp allowplaintext: yes Each time I start a test by - testsaslauthd -u user -p password or - imtest -m plain -a user localhost I get ervery time saslauthd[42062]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=user] [service=imap] [realm=] [mech=kerberos5] [reason=krb5_verify_user_opt failed] The krb5_verify_user_opt failed is comming from the Kerberos 5 Library (libkrb5, -lkrb5) -> krb5_verify_user_opt and is located in the auth_krb5.c (from SASL). I ckecked the kerberos/DNS communication on both sides with tshark and Netmon (Microsoft's "tcpdump") but the kerberos communications seems to be ok. Additionaly I started also a struss on saslauthd but also without any look. So I have now no more ideas where I can check. Any hints are welcome. Regards, -- Martin Schweizer schweizer.martin@xxxxxxxxx Tel.: +41 32 512 48 54 (VoIP) Fax: +1 619 3300587