I don't quite understand why I should bother about pam.conf if the pwcheck_method is saslauthd? Should all the authentications are done through saslauthd for imapd, popd, and timsieved? Here is my /etc/imapd.conf:
configdirectory: /ext/imap/config partition-default: /ext/imap/mailboxes servername: bragi.netsco.com admins: root cyrus sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd allowplaintext: yes allowanonymouslogin: no autocreatequota: 20 sendmail: /usr/lib/sendmail timeout: 30 imapidlepoll: 60 impaidreponse: yes umask: 077 sieveuserhomedir: false sievedir: /ext/imap/sieve sasl_auto_transition: yes postuser: bb lmtpsocket: /var/cyrus/socket/lmtp idlesocket: /var/cyrus/socket/idle dracinterval: 30 drachost: localhost altnamespace: yes userprefix: Other Users sharedprefix: Shared Folders logtimestamps: yes sasl_mech_list: plain sasl_sasldb_path: /etc/sasldb2 Running sieveshell returns authentication error with not much detailed information: bash-2.03# /usr/local/bin/sieveshell --user=keith --authname=keith mailhost connecting to mailhost Please enter your password: unable to connect to server: Authentication Error at /usr/local/bin/sieveshell line 172, <STDIN> chunk 1. peeking in /var/adm/messages shows: Feb 25 23:48:45 bragi timsieved[1459]: [ID 702911 auth.notice] Password verification failed and /var/log/imapd.log shows: Feb 25 23:46:49 bragi master[1434]: [ID 392559 local6.debug] about to exec /usr/ local/cyrus/bin/timsieved Feb 25 23:46:49 bragi sieve[1434]: [ID 518349 local6.debug] executed Feb 25 23:46:49 bragi sieve[1434]: [ID 921384 local6.debug] accepted connection Feb 25 23:46:52 bragi timsieved[1434]: [ID 656617 local6.notice] badlogin: local host[127.0.0.1] PLAIN authentication failure Feb 25 23:46:52 bragi master[1365]: [ID 310780 local6.debug] process 1434 exited , status 75 Thanks keith > -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Murchison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 8:24 PM > To: Keith Kee > Cc: Cyrus Info > Subject: Re: sieveshell authentication failed on Solaris > > > > > Keith Kee wrote: > > > > Hi: > > I am running cyrus-imap 2.1.2 and cyrus-sasl 2.1.1 on > Solaris 8, and I am > > having problem getting timsieved to authenticate right. Following the > > instructions written in "installing sieve" in the docs included with the > > source, I should be able to check my login to timsieved using > > sieveshell --user=keith --authname=keith localhost. However, I > am getting an > > error: unable to connect to server: Authentication Error at > > /usr/local/bin/sieveshell line 172, <STDIN> chunk 1. > > > > I am using saslauthd as my pwcheck_method, and started > saslauthd -a pam. > > I was able to login to the imap server but not the timsieved. Reading > > through the posting in this mailing list archive, there was some mention > > about having to copying pam.d/imap to pam.d/timsieved. I believe this > > applies to linux only? I don't find a pamd.d directory in Solaris 8. > > Besides, I did not edit pam.conf file to make imap server authenticate > > correctly. Also, I have sasl_mech_list set to plain in /etc/imapd.conf. > > Whether you have one big pam.conf or separate files under pam.d, you > need to have a 'sieve' config which can be a copy of your 'imap' or > 'pop' config. > > Ken > -- > Kenneth Murchison Oceana Matrix Ltd. > Software Engineer 21 Princeton Place > 716-662-8973 x26 Orchard Park, NY 14127 > --PGP Public Key-- http://www.oceana.com/~ken/ksm.pgp > >
