Sorry: should have been "realm" not "real" in the subject! And below... Ross On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 23:23 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > I made a virtual machine whose disk was a writable snapshot of the disk > from another VM. After I changed the hostname, I was unable to login to > cyrus imap until I created a new user in sasldb (with the new real). It "new realm" > seems that sasldb kept the realm/hostname with which they were > originally created, but the accounts in cyrus imap moved to the new > hostname. Could anyone help me understand what was going on? > > Here are more details about what I did. The old vm was vm-lenny00; the > new one was vm-migrate07. > > On the new vm, > # sasldblistusers2 > cyrus@vm-lenny00: userPassword > ross@vm-lenny00: userPassword > > I tried explicitly qualifying the names I used to login to imap; when > that didn't work I added this line to imapd.conf: > loginrealms: vm-lenny00 vm-lenny00.kvm.lan > > At this point the logs indicate I was able to authenticate, but my mail > clients (evolution and mutt) reported they couldn't find a mailbox. > > Then I did > # saslpasswd2 -c ross > which created a ross@vm-migrate07 id in the sasldb. I was able to login > to imap, using an unqualified "ross" as my username. > > So the imap server acts as if the accounts formerly associated with > ross@vm-lenny00 actually belong to ross@vm-migrate07. In this case > that's convenient, but I'm puzzled why it happened. > > sasl 2.1.22 with cyrus 2.2.13 on Debian Lenny. imapd.conf includes > allowplaintext: yes > sasl_minimum_layer: 0 > loginrealms: vm-lenny00 vm-lenny00.kvm.lan > sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop > > No virtual domains options are set. > > Thanks. > Ross > ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
