Hi. I'm not a newbie. I've been using cyrus-imapd since 1.5.19. I successfully installed cyrus-imapd-16.19 rpm for rh6.2 Now I wanted to install it in a rh7.1 box but after solving many problems now I'm facing one I can't manage. I have: cyrus-sasl-1.5.24-17 cyrus-imapd-2.0.9-3 Now I just can't login using cyradm localhost nor telnetting to port 110. I've spent many hours searching mail archives and google and I'm about to give up. Please someone give me a hint. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious. Thank you for your time. I see messages like this: Sep 27 10:46:55 gaherma master[19344]: about to exec /usr/cyrus/bin/imapd Sep 27 10:46:55 gaherma service-/usr/cyrus/bin/imapd[19344]: executed Sep 27 10:46:55 gaherma imapd[19344]: accepted connection imap(pam_unix)[19421]: authentication failure; logname= uid=76 euid=76 tty= ruser= rhost= user=root ##/etc/imapd.conf#################################################### configdirectory: /var/imap partition-default: /var/spool/imap admins: cyrus root eva allowanonymouslogin: no #sasl_pwcheck_method: sasldb sasl_pwcheck_method: pam #I tried method: passwd, shadow, pam, sasld.######################### My cyrus user: uid=76(cyrus) gid=12(mail) grupos=12(mail),0(root),76(shadow) The shadow and sasld files: -rw-r----- 1 root mail 1905 sep 27 08:33 /etc/shadow -rw-r--r-- 1 cyrus root 12288 sep 27 11:02 /etc/sasldb #/etc/cyrus.conf#################################################### START { # do not delete these entries! mboxlist cmd="ctl_mboxlist -r" deliver cmd="ctl_deliver -r" } SERVICES { # add or remove based on preferences imap cmd="/usr/cyrus/bin/imapd" listen="imap" prefork=0 imaps cmd="/usr/cyrus/bin/imapd -s" listen="imaps" prefork=0 pop3 cmd="/usr/cyrus/bin/pop3d" listen="pop3" prefork=0 pop3s cmd="/usr/cyrus/bin/pop3d -s" listen="pop3s" prefork=0 sieve cmd="/usr/cyrus/bin/timsieved" listen="sieve" prefork=0 lmtpunix cmd="/usr/cyrus/bin/lmtpd" listen="/var/imap/socket/lmtp" prefor k=0 } EVENTS { checkpoint cmd="ctl_mboxlist -c" period=30 } #/etc/pam.d/imap###################################################### #%PAM-1.0 auth required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth account required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth #/etc/pam.d/pop####################################################### #%PAM-1.0 auth required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth account required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth -- --Frankie