To be clear about this, you did create an account within Cyrus's db using cyradm, not just a system account correct?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jochen Stärk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 3:44 PM Subject: beginner's question > hi there, > > I've installed Suse 8.1 professional and decided to go from uw imap with > shadow authentication to the cyrus server that ship with suse. Well, the > thing is: I can't log me in. Although Cyrus is up and running (telnet > localhost imap: "cyrus imap4 2.1.9 server ready"), when I try e.g. LOGIN > cyrus, it will say LOGIN BAD please login first. > > I checked that sasl is running (rcsaslauthd start) and ps -aux will > report me 5 "saslauthd -a pam". > > Also, i gave cyrus a sasl1 as well as sasl2-entry in the db, using > saslpasswd -c cyrus and saslpasswd2 -c cyrus. Anyway, NO LOGIN IS ACCEPTED. > imtest -u cyrus localhost also prompts me for a password, but when i > enter the pwd, it will say S: A01 NO Error authenticating Authentication > failes. generic failure > Security strength factor: 128 > > Two more things to mention: in /etc/imapd.conf, the pwcheck is stated to > be sasl_pwcheck_method:saslauthd and > my Suse-Cyrus seems to be compiled as if it would not accept > shadow-auth, so please don't ask me to trigger that on. > > Is this thing trying to authenticate me on sasl or what? is my entry in > the sasldb sufficient or do i have to type that somekind of pam > frontend? Is there maybe even a default password for the first > configuration? > > Where is the logfile that tells me why those login-attempts have failed? > > thanks in advance, > Jochen > > >