On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 20:13 +0200, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: > On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 13:39 -0700, Rob Tanner wrote: > > I've setup an IMAP server using Cyrus IMAP4 v2.2.3 which I've setup > > before without a problem. Authentication is handles through saslauthd. > > When I use /etc/shadow as the authentication mechanism (-a shadow), my > > test accounts log in just fine. When, instead, I startup saslauthd > > using LDAP (-a ldap), I get the famous "generic failure" error. But at > > the same time, when saslauthd is running with the -a ldap option, > > testsaslauthd -u ,user -p <secret> returns an "OK" for the right > > password and a "NO" for the wrong password. That in itself should > > validate the saslauthd.conf file, but I also compared it to the > > saslauthd.conf file on another system which is working correctly. > > > > I am confused. Any ideas? > > check the permissions on the saslauthd mux. you probably run > testsaslauthd as root. never mind me, this can't be it since Cyrus is able to communicate with saslauthd in the shadow case. -- sorry for the noise, Kjetil T. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
