Dan White schreef: > On 13/08/09 12:01 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: >> Duncan Gibb schreef: >>> Paul van der Vlis wrote: >>> >>>> C: AUTHENTICATE "PLAIN" {16+} >>>> AHBhdWwAZXJ1NGJj >>> >>> I hope you changed your password after you posted that ;-) > > Let me echo that statement, since it looks like you're logging in as root! > Your password is now publicly known. I did change the password (and it was not the root-password). >> Aug 13 11:27:40 sigmund cyrus/timsieved[16455]: badlogin: >> localhost[127.0.0.1] PLAIN authentication failure >> >> Aug 13 11:27:40 sigmund saslauthd[12960]: do_auth : auth >> failure: [user=root] [service=sieve] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM >> auth error] >> > > Try: > > testsaslauthd -u username -p password > testsaslauthd -u username -p password -s sieve > testsaslauthd -u username -p password -s imap > > Do you get different answers? No, they give all: 0: OK "Success." when I do it as root or as user cyrus. But when I execute "testsaslauthd" as another user, it fails with a "connect() : Permission denied". But this is also the case on the other machine what works correct. > If not, can you include the output of 'grep sasl /etc/imapd.conf'? > (assuming there is no sensitive information), and the contents of your > /etc/default/saslauthd? sasl_mech_list: PLAIN sasl_minimum_layer: 0 #sasl_maximum_layer: 256 sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd #sasl_auxprop_plugin: sasldb sasl_auto_transition: no /etc/default/saslauthd: START=yes MECHANISMS="pam" MECH_OPTIONS="" THREADS=5 OPTIONS="-c" Maybe this is important: sigmund:~# ls -ld /var/run/saslauthd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 2009-07-22 14:01 /var/run/saslauthd -> /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd/ sigmund:~# ls -ld /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd/ drwx--x--- 2 root sasl 200 2009-07-22 14:02 /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd/ sigmund:~# ls -l /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd/ total 929 -rw------- 1 root root 0 2009-07-22 14:02 cache.flock -rw------- 1 root root 945152 2009-07-22 14:02 cache.mmap srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2009-07-22 14:02 mux -rw------- 1 root root 0 2009-07-22 14:02 mux.accept -rw------- 1 root root 6 2009-07-22 14:02 saslauthd.pid Thanks for your help! With regards, Paul van der Vlis. -- http://www.vandervlis.nl/ ---- 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