Thanks for an ultra fast response. Your suggestion to use the -a option worked.
Just for the information, the version of Cyrus I'm running is 2.0.16_1. Thank you very much. Taro ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Siemborski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Taro Ikai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 10:57 AM Subject: Re: sieveshell DIGEST-MD5 authentication failure > On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Taro Ikai wrote: > > > I just installed Cyrus on my FreeBSD server. IMAP access is working fine. > > When I try to start sieveshell, I get the following error: > > What version of cyrus are you using? What are your configuration files > (please see Ken's post > >http://asg.web.cmu.edu/archive/message.php?mailbox=archive.info-cyrus&searchterm=Murchison&msg=11576) > > > saba# sieveshell -u mailadmin localhost > > connecting to localhost > > Please enter your password: xxxxxx > > unable to connect to server: Authentication error at /usr/local/bin/sieveshell >line 149, <STDIN> chunk 1. > > Dec 14 10:32:28 saba timsieved[66837]: badlogin: localhost[::1] DIGEST-MD5 >authentication failure > > > > What's going on? > > I suspect that the user you are running as is not an admin in the cyrus > configuration file. (e.g. if sieveshell isn't given an authentication > name, it tries to authenticate as whatever the userid is that is running > the process). In this case, assuming you are running the process as > userid 'ikait', it is trying to authenticate as user 'ikait' but then > authorize as 'mailadmin'. In general, only admins and proxyservers are > allowed to authorize to a different user. > > I *suspect* the command you want is: > > sieveshell -u mailadmin -a mailadmin localhost > > But without further information I cannot be sure. > > -Rob > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Rob Siemborski | Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 235 * 412-CMU-TREK > | Cyrus SASL Developer, /usr/contributed Gatekeeper > >
