Thanks Ralph... I had not tried that before, however this did not seem to work for me: It seems that the admins section of the imapd.conf is not working????
**telnet session: telnet imap 143 Trying xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx... Connected to imap.goob.com. Escape character is '^]'. * OK imap.goob.com Cyrus IMAP4 v2.0.12 server ready . login cyrus cyruspas . OK User logged in . create user.test . NO Permission denied <----the theme of the week! **process: cyrus 1753 0.0 1.9 2328 1192 p0- S Tue09AM 0:01.11 /usr/local/cyrus/bin/master **again /etc/imapd.conf configdirectory: /var/imap partition-default: /usr/imap defaultpartition: default admins: cyrus root sasl_pwcheck_method: sasldb **directory perms: imap# ll /usr/ drwxr-x--- 3 cyrus mail 512 Oct 9 15:26 imap imap# ll /var drwxr-x--- 11 cyrus mail 512 Oct 3 15:38 imap everything under these directories is owned by cyrus. I have no idea what to try next? Thanks for any help. --- Ralph Oesker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreibt: > > > >imap# cyradm -u cyrus imap > >Please enter your password: > >IMAP Password: > > at > >/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd/Cyrus/IMAP/Admin.pm > >line 78 > >cyradm: cannot authenticate to server with as > cyrus > > If you try to connect as cyrus you must set a > password (with saslpasswd) for cyrus. > > > >imap# cyradm -u cyrus imap > >Please enter your password: > >imap.goob.com> cm user.robert > >createmailbox: Permission denied > > > >must I be in a certain directory when I > >"createmailbox"?? What am I doing wrong? > >as you can see I have cyrus as an admin user in > >imapd.conf. > > > No you don't must in a special directory. Are the > write-permissions in the "partition-default: > /usr/imap" so that user cyrus can write ? (Importent > is not the user "cyrus" from the sasldb but > also the unix-user under that the master-daemon > run's). > > take a look an my config: > > linux:~ # cat /etc/imapd.conf > configdirectory: /var/imap > partition-default: /var/spool/imap > admins: admin > defaultacl: anyone lrs > > sasl_pwcheck_method: pam > > quotawarn: 80 > timeout: 30 > plaintextloginpause: 0 > > linux:~ # telnet localhost 143 > Trying ::1... > telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to localhost. > Escape character is '^]'. > * OK linux Cyrus IMAP4 v2.0.16 server ready > . login admin adminpassword > . OK User logged in > . create user.test > . OK Completed > . list "user.test" * > * LIST () "." "user.test" > . OK Completed (0.000 secs 2 calls) > . logout > * BYE LOGOUT received > . OK Completed > Connection closed by foreign host. > linux:~ # > > > bye..ralph > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com
