On Sun, 19 Aug 2012, brian wrote: > I'm having some trouble configuring SASL for a new server. Specifically, > it seems, with realms. I'm now at the point where imtest works with the > virtual domains but not with the default domain. > > I'm using sasldb through auxprop. In the past I've always done: > > saslpasswd2 -c username@xxxxxxxxxx > > But in order to get SASL working with Postfix this time I had to specify > the realm with -u and use a bare account name: > > saslpasswd2 -c -u DEFAULT.TLD username > saslpasswd2 -c -u VDOMAIN1.TLD username > etc > > After days of struggle, I've got Postfix responding well when testing > via telnet. The base64 hash was created with: > > perl -MMIME::Base64 -e 'print > encode_base64("\000user\@DOMAIN.TLD\000password");' > > I mention all that because it seems as if realms are the issue. Or it > was before and I suppose that's been resolved. Now it's just the default > domain that's giving me problems. It's been days and days now and I'm so > close that I'm reluctant to fiddle any more because I know that the > chances are good that I'll make things worse (as I've probably > repeatedly done already). I'd appreciate it if someone could suggest > something to save the rest of my hair. > > FWIW, this server has no DNS records pointing to it yet. My goal is to > get Postfix & Cyrus working to the point where I can use imapsync, then > deal with DNS. This is what I've done in the past. > > (And imapsync is working now with the virtual domains.) > > > $ hostname -f > poseidon.DEFAULT.TLD > > $ imtest -v -m plain -a user@xxxxxxxxxxx localhost > S: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ ID ENABLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN > AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 AUTH=CRAM-MD5 SASL-IR] poseidon Cyrus IMAP > v2.4.12-Debian-2.4.12-2 server ready > Please enter your password: > C: A01 AUTHENTICATE PLAIN xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > S: A01 NO authentication failure > Authentication failed. generic failure > Security strength factor: 0 Does it work if you use: imtest -v -m plain -a user -r DEFAULT.TLD localhost Andy ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus