imapd can't auth to sasl (imap[13935]: [ID 702911 auth.notice] cannot connect to saslauthd server: Permission denied)

[Yedidia Klein <yedidia@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've installed sasl (2.1.22) and cyrus (2.2.12) imapd on a solaris 10 box (inside a zone)

sasl is configured to auth against ldap and work well on my tests w/ testsaslauthd (w/ root/cyrus users)

while trying to auth imapd w/ this sasl I get errors.

here what I get from imtest:

% ./imtest -a yk -m login -p imap localhost
S: * OK mta.comany.com Cyrus IMAP4 v2.2.12 server ready
C: C01 CAPABILITY
S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ MAILBOX-REFERRALS NAMESPACE UIDPLUS ID NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN MULTIAPPEND BINARY SORT THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES ANNOTATEMORE IDLE
S: C01 OK Completed
Please enter your password:
C: L01 LOGIN yk {5}
S: + go ahead
C: <omitted>
S: L01 NO Login failed: generic failure
Authentication failed. generic failure
Security strength factor: 0
C: Q01 LOGOUT
* BYE LOGOUT received
Q01 OK Completed
Connection closed.

and here is logfile:

May 28 16:29:12 rambam2 imap[14066]: [ID 702911 auth.notice] cannot connect to saslauthd server: Permission denied
May 28 16:29:12 rambam2 imap[14066]: [ID 914338 local6.notice] badlogin: localhost [127.0.0.1] plaintext yk SASL(-1): generic failure: checkpass failed

I checked that the mux file of sasl has accessible permission, and it has..

any idea what could be the problem ??

tnx,

--Yedidia

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