Re: Authentication problem

[Michael Menge <michael.menge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > $ imtest -m login -p imap -u satimiscyrus localhost
> > S: * OK lampserver Cyrus IMAP4 v2.2.12-Debian-2.2.12-4ubuntu1 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
> > AUTH=NTLM AUTH=ANONYMOUS AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 AUTH=CRAM-MD5 SASL-IR
> > S: C01 OK Completed
> > Please enter your password:
> > C: L01 LOGIN satimis {12}
> > S: + go ahead
> > C: <omitted>
> > S: L01 NO Login failed: generic failure
> > Authentication failed. generic failure
> > Security strength factor: 0
> > (it is hanging here)
>
> I have the feeling you should add this to your imapd.conf:
>
> sasl_mech_list: PLAIN
I miss AUTH=LOGIN and AUTH=PLAIN
so "sasl_mech_list: PLAIN" will only cause that no auth mech
will be available.

Maybe a sasl package is not installed/found
ll /usr/lib/sasl2/ show for me

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    22 2006-09-04 16:18 libanonymous.so ->  
libanonymous.so.2.0.21*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    22 2006-09-04 16:18 libanonymous.so.2 ->  
libanonymous.so.2.0.21*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 13216 2006-06-16 16:40 libanonymous.so.2.0.21*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    18 2006-09-04 16:18 liblogin.so ->  
liblogin.so.2.0.21*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    18 2006-09-04 16:18 liblogin.so.2 ->  
liblogin.so.2.0.21*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 13724 2006-06-16 16:41 liblogin.so.2.0.21*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    18 2006-09-04 16:21 libplain.so ->  
libplain.so.2.0.21*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    18 2006-09-04 16:21 libplain.so.2 ->  
libplain.so.2.0.21*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 14268 2006-06-16 16:40 libplain.so.2.0.21*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    19 2006-09-04 16:18 libsasldb.so ->  
libsasldb.so.2.0.21*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    19 2006-09-04 16:18 libsasldb.so.2 ->  
libsasldb.so.2.0.21*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 18316 2006-06-16 16:40 libsasldb.so.2.0.21*





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