Hi folks, Problem solved. I needed to use saslpasswd to change the cyrus password....
-Ed -----Original Message----- From: Markus Wernig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 3:59 PM To: Ed Sanborn Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: starting cyradm Ed Sanborn wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm having to create a mailbox for the first time on my > inherited Cyrus IMAP server. I am trying to start cyradm > and am having trouble: > > ~cyrus @flyingfox >cyradm -user cyrus localhost > Please enter your password: > application-specific initialization failed: authentication failed > ~cyrus @flyingfox > hi ed i had the same pb. resolved (but not understood) by using (from memory) # cyradm -user cyrus -auth login localhost (i will verify the syntax shortly) hth /markus
