>>> I have a postfix relay server and a (local) cyrus imap server on the >>> same machine. Everything was fine until I thought, I change the imap >>> authentication from sasldb to saslauth, to have global authentication >>> on postfix and cyrus.<br> >>> Postfix uses saslauthd, which is configured for PAM. It works >>> perfectly, with plain/login/cram/digest mechanisms, with or without >>> tls/ssl, absolutely no problems with it. Saslauth tests are all fine >>> obviously.<br> >>> So I decided to use this with cyrus imap too. Set it to use the same >>> saslauth daemon, and plain, login, cram-md5 and digest-md5 mechs.<br> >>> Since then, I can not login with plain or login mechs, because they >>> aren't being offered at all by cyrus imapd. I can login with cram or >>> digest fine.<br> >>> I understand that plain login isn't offered by default, only after a >>> successfull tls session setup, but if I understand correctly, the >>> "allowplaintext: yes" option should still force imapd to offer plain >>> logins. But it doesn't. I tried it with different sasl_min|max_levels, >>> to no avail.<br> >>> >> >> "allowplaintext: 1" should indeed enable plain. At least that works well >> for me. I expect you are using the packages from a distribution, maybe >> they have added some kind of "security" patches to make things more >> safe? >> Could you try with the following line in your cyrus config: >> >> sasl_mech_list: PLAIN >> >> Regards, >> Simon >> >> > yes, the server is running ubuntu 7.04 i386, 2.6.20-17-generic, and > postfix and cyrus are installed via the ubuntu repositiories. Can you check which cyrus-sasl-* packages you have installed? Most distributions split cyrus-sasl into multiple packages and maybe you have not installed the -plain package? Simon ---- 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
