Am 2019-09-20 07:42, schrieb Dave Close:
Trying to get Cyrus working on Fedora 30 by following instructions at <https://www.cyrusimap.org/imap/download/installation/distributions/fedora.html> but having some trouble. # dnf install cyrus-imapd cyrus-sasl cyrus-sasl-plain # passwd cyrus # systemctl start saslauthd # systemctl enable saslauthd Everything worked correctly. # testsaslauthd -u cyrus -p YOUR-PASSWORD 0: OK "Success." # systemctl start cyrus-imapd # systemctl enable cyrus-imapd Everything worked correctly. # imtest -t "" -u cyrus -a cyrus localhost S: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ ID ENABLE STARTTLS AUTH=SCRAM-SHA-1 AUTH=SCRAM-SHA-256 AUTH=GSSAPI AUTH=GSS-SPNEGO AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 AUTH=CRAM-MD5 AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=PLAIN SASL-IR] d7010.compata.com Cyrus IMAP 3.0.10-1.fc30 Fedora server ready C: S01 STARTTLS S: S01 NO Error initializing TLS Please enter your password: C: A01 AUTHENTICATE SCRAM-SHA-1 bixhPWN5cnVzLG49Y3lydXMscj1ES01aRmVyWlpaOFBoQ2NiK2lrQlQ5ZENnMXd5NDBw UQ== S: A01 NO generic failure Authentication failed. generic failure What am I missing? The "generic failure" message does not give me any clue how to proceed. Searching for that message online also did not return any useful results.
Check how cyrus-imapd is configured. Does it really use saslauthd as its credential backend?
Alexander
