Am Friday 29 September 2006 00:02 schrieb Marten Lehmann: > I'm using getpwent for admin authentication and salsdb for commoon > mailbox users. I noticed a strange behaviour: > > I'm not using salsauthd. But when I'm just writing > > sasl_pwcheck_method: getpwent auxprop "getpwent" isn't a valid "pwcheck_method". Hmm, I would guess there are some errors in your Log about it. Do you ignore them? > I always get > > NO Login failed: user not found > (only admin users not found) > > When I have > > sasl_pwcheck_method: getpwent auxprop saslauthd > > and salsauthd isn't running I get > > NO Login failed: generic failure > > Why do I have to include salsauthd and even need to have it running, > while it is not being used? Because saslauthd is the only thing in cyrus-sasl which is able to handle getpwent or Unix-Users? -- Andreas ---- 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