Jon \"GenKIller\" Gaudette wrote: > > Good and Bad News :( > > That fixed that particular authentication error, but aunveiled another > one :( > > Now when I issue the command imtest -m login -p imap localhost as user > cyrus it 'works'. However, when I try to create a new user by following > the directions at http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Cyrus-IMAP-8.html#ss8.2 I > cannot seem to add users to my server: > > I attempted to create the user 'joebob'. But even after I user > 'saslpasswd joebob' and set the password accordingly, I still get the > following error when attempting to login
If you are using /etc/shadow for plaintext passwords, then you need to add joebob's password with 'passwd' or whatever command you use on your system. > > --- > [root@mail root]# imtest -m login -a joebob localhost > S: * OK mail.url Cyrus IMAP4 v2.1.11-Invoca-RPM-2.1.11-3 server ready > C: C01 CAPABILITY > S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ MAILBOX-REFERRALS > NAMESPACE UIDPLUS ID NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN MULTIAPPEND SORT > THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES IDLE STARTTLS LISTEXT > LIST-SUBSCRIBED ANNOTATEMORE X-NETSCAPE > S: C01 OK Completed > Please enter your password: > C: L01 LOGIN joebob {8} > S: + go ahead > C: <omitted> > S: L01 NO Login failed: authentication failure > Authentication failed. generic failure > Security strength factor: 0 > . logout > * BYE LOGOUT received > . OK Completed > Connection closed. > --- > > Thank you very much for the help thus far, and help you can provide > again will be truly appreciated!!! > > -Jon > > On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 12:47, Ken Murchison wrote: > > This is not valid with SASLv2 (I'm guessing that you read this in an old > > FAQ somewhere). Change this to 'saslauthd' and start 'saslauthd -a > > shadow' -- 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