On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Mike might have said: > I'm close to moving LDAP to production and am running a > few checks. The one this morning is changing my password, > seeing that password updated in ldap, and logging in to > linux with the old password (fails) and the new password > (passes). Then I tried to copy an email message from my > workstations outlook express from a local folder to the > imap (cyrus) server on linux. The copy failed (good). I > changed the password to the new password and the copy > failed (bad). > > The message in /var/log/maillog is: > > Dec 13 09:06:55 $HOST imap[19577]: badlogin: [10.1.2.92] \ > plaintext mikee SASL(-13): authentication failure: checkpass failed > > I changed back to the origianl password and the copy in > outlook express succeeded. Actually, the program is plain > outlook, not outlook express. > > The workstation is xp with all the current patches. The > server is red hat fedora core 5 with patches older than > one week. The cyrus server is working, there is just a > problem with ldap and changing passwords. > > Where do I look or any ideas on what to change? This box > is begining to be used by others, so there is a limit > to what I can do during the day. > > Oh, with the new password I was able to login using > 'telnet localhost 143', '1 login $USER $PASS', '2 list "" ""', > '3 logout'. I think this an outlook issue in that each time outlook access the imap folder it re-asks for the password. If I clikc the 'Remember Me' (which I don't like), it remembers the password and acts normal (normal for outlook). Thanks. Mike ---- 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
