On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Ed Sanborn wrote:

> ~cyrus @flyingfox >cyradm -user cyrus localhost
> Please enter your password:
> application-specific initialization failed: authentication failed
> ~cyrus @flyingfox >
> 
> I am entering my cyrus account's password.  Is this not the 
> password it is looking for?  If I give it a goofy password that
> I know is not wrong it gives me the same error.

What type of authentication does your imap server support?  What kind of 
account is "cyrus"?

Just a guess, but if cyradm is trying to krb-iv authentication to your 
imap server, it will fail if "cyrus" is just a local account.

-Dave
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