Hi, I have a cyrus setup with one primary domain and many virtual domains A) Saslauthd is running as saslauthd -m /var/run/saslauthd -a pam -r B) Username in ldap for primary domain uid=userid for virtual domain uid=userid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Now when my /etc/hosts does not have 127.0.0.1 primary-domain.com a primary-domain user is not able to authenticate .. but virtual domain users have no problem at all Cant I do without the /etc/hosts entry Thanks Ram PS: I am using cyrus 2.3 on centos 4.3 ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html