Hi,
1. In imapd.conf, add: AllowPlaintxt=yes og something (check man imapd.conf)
2. Hope that cyrus-sasl is compiled to allow plaintxt pwds.
Hope it helps.
T
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gilion
> Goudsmit
> Sent: 10. april 2001 14:32
> To: cyrus list
> Subject: Cyrus/PAM/NIS on RedHat7 failing with 'PLAIN no mechanism
> available'
>
>
> Hi people...
>
> I'm a relative newbie so forgive any stupendous stupidities please...
>
> I'm trying to set up a 'standard' setup for a RH7 based Cyrus
> mailserver for
> internal use at our company. I'm doing it step-by-step so I can learn
> something, but I'm getting stuck at one of the first steps.
> I'm running
> Cyrus v2.0.9 by the way; the rpm from RawHide.
>
> The RedHat system is configured to use NIS, which works. I
> can login with my
> userid which is known at the NIS server.
>
> I've successfully configured Cyrus using the sasldb
> sasl_pwcheck_method
> (imapd.conf) but would prefer using PAM, so I can flexibly switch the
> userdatabase. For starters I'm just using the system_auth pam
> method. I've
> set the sasl_pwcheck_method to 'pam', and the 'imap' file in the pam.d
> folder reads the following:
>
> auth required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth
> account required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth
>
> and the system-auth file reads:
>
> auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_unix.so likeauth
> nullok md5
> shadow
> auth required /lib/security/pam_deny.so
> account sufficient /lib/security/pam_unix.so
> account required /lib/security/pam_deny.so
> password required /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3
> password sufficient /lib/security/pam_unix.so nullok
> use_authtok md5
> shadow
> password required /lib/security/pam_deny.so
> session required /lib/security/pam_limits.so
> session required /lib/security/pam_unix.so
>
> when I try to login using 'cyradm -u root localhost' I get this in
> /var/log/messages:
>
> Apr 9 19:48:42 gandalf2 imapd[12360]: badlogin:
> localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1] PLAIN no mechanism available
> Apr 9 19:48:47 gandalf2 PAM_unix[12360]: authentication failure;
> (uid=76) -> root for system-auth service
>
> Uid 76 is the cyrus user, so I suppose something is failing
> because the
> server is running as cyrus or something? Or do I need to 'allow' PLAIN
> logins from somewhere? Any help is making it work but
> especially and helping
> me understand what is actually going wrong would be greatly
> appreciated and
> buys you lunch in Amsterdam (plain-ticket not included).
>
> Thank you and Regards, Gilion R. Goudsmit, MagicMinds, Amsterdam.
>
