Re: Problems authenticating using saslauthd w/LDAP

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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.
-- 
Kjetil T.


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