On 19/10/11 15:10 +0530, Rajeshwar Bharathi wrote: >I used yum to insatll cyrus-sasl and cyrus-imapd >The installation went thru fine and I am able to create users using >saslpasswd2 >when I start cyrus-imapd server it comes up fine >/etc/init.d/cyrus-imapd start > > >I have the following configuration files. >/etc/imapd.conf >/etc/sysconfig/saslauthd >/etc/sysconfig/sendmail.conf >/usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf > >I have the following configurations in /etc/imapd.conf > >configdirectory: /var/lib/imap >partition-default: /var/spool/imap >admins: cyrus root >sievedir: /var/lib/imap/sieve >sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail >hashimapspool: true >sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd >sasl_mech_list: PLAIN >tls_cert_file: /etc/pki/cyrus-imapd/cyrus-imapd.pem >tls_key_file: /etc/pki/cyrus-imapd/cyrus-imapd.pem >tls_ca_file: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt ># uncomment this if you're operating in a DSCP environment (RFC-4594) ># qosmarking: af13 You mentioned above that you have created your users with saslpasswd2, but you have 'sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd' configured. If you wish to authenticate against the sasldb2 database, then you'll want: sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop sasl_auxprop_plugin: sasldb And in your /usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf: pwcheck_method: auxprop auxprop_plugin: sasldb >when I try to test I get the following errors >test1>>> >imtest -m login -p imap localhost >Authentication failed:gebneric error > >test2>>>> > >cyradm --user cyrus --server localhost --auth plain > >Password: >IMAP Password: >Login failed: authentication failure at >/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/x86_64-linux/Cyrus/IMAP/Admin.pm >line 118 >cyradm: cannot authenticate to server with plain as cyrus Check your syslog output (auth facility) for any relevant errors. -- Dan White ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/