Hi, I am not very experienced with cyrus, and I am running into a problem each time I want to run cyradm: cyrus@box:~> cyradm --user cyrus --auth login --server localhost IMAP Password: Login failed: authentication failure at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/i586-linux-thread-multi/Cyrus/IMAP/Admin.pm line 119 cyradm: cannot authenticate to server with login as cyrus I use sasldb2 for authentication, and I have added cyrus into the saslsb using: saslpasswd2 -c cyrus -u localhost I can see that this both username and password actually arrived in /etc/sasldb2 by doing a strings /etc/sasldb2 Things also don't work when I use the root account on my system (produces exacly the same outpit as above). If Ileave the --auth login away, I am asked for two passwords, once just "password" and once "IMAP password": box:~ # cyradm --user cyrus --server localhost Password: IMAP Password: Login failed: authentication failure at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/i586-linux-thread-multi/Cyrus/IMAP/Admin.pm line 119 cyradm: cannot authenticate to server with as cyrus Not knowing what the first password might be, I set a password using passwd in /etc/shadow for the user cyrus, but even hacking in this does not help anything. If I want to create new mailboxes or manage the quotas, then I always need to add myself to the admins in /etc/imapd.conf, which is quite annoying. I think for these kinds of works there should be a dedicated & working cyrus account. For reference: This is my /etc/imapd.conf: configdirectory: /var/lib/imap partition-default: /var/spool/imap sievedir: /var/lib/sieve admins: cyrus root allowanonymouslogin: no allowplaintext: yes autocreatequota: 0 createonpost: yes reject8bit: no quotawarn: 90 timeout: 30 poptimeout: 10 dracinterval: 0 drachost: localhost #sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop sasl_mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN lmtpsocket: /var/spool/postfix/socket/lmtp lmtp_overquota_perm_failure: no lmtp_downcase_rcpt: yes # # if you want TLS, you have to generate certificates and keys # tls_cert_file: /srv/certs/mail/mail.serv.org.crt tls_key_file: /srv/certs/mail/mail.serv.org.key tls_ca_file: /srv/certs/ca/serv/root.crt tls_ca_path: /srv/certs/ca/serv Can someone here tell me what I am doing wrong? I have search the web for an entire day now and I'm getting tired of reading halfway through posts that don't apply to my situation, because most poeple seem to use saslauthd, which is complete overkill for my little box. Cheers, Raimund