bummer no responses... that's what I was afraid of... How about "does anyone know of a way I can troubleshoot this?"
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 23:05, Patrick Nelson wrote: > RH9 > > So I've been following this how-to of > Postfix-cyrus.postgresql-web-cyradm > (http://www.web-cyradm.org/documentation/Postfix-cyrus-postgreSQL-web-cyradm.pdf.gz) > > I've got to the point where I have to test cyradm (page 17) prior to > setting up web-cyradm but I'm not getting authenticated. I've gone over > the documentation a few more times and everything seem right. I enter > the following: > > cyradm --user cyrus --server localhost > > to which I get: > > IMAP Password: > > to which I enter the password. To which I get: > > Login failed: generic failure at > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Cyrus/IMAP/Admin.pm line 118 > cyradm: cannot authenticate to server with as cyrus > > Message in /var/log is: > > Aug 21 22:30:15 ca perl: No worthy mechs found > Aug 21 22:30:22 ca imapd[1550]: size read failed > Aug 21 22:30:22 ca imapd[1550]: badlogin: ca.npn[127.0.0.1] plaintext > cyrus SASL(-1): generic failure: checkpass failed > > Anyone understand my failure? I thought it might have been permissions > on directories, because initially I was getting a different error than > the size read failed: > > Aug 21 20:54:13 ca perl: No worthy mechs found > Aug 21 20:54:26 ca imapd[899]: cannot connect to saslauthd server: > Permission denied > Aug 21 20:54:26 ca imapd[899]: badlogin: ca.npn[127.0.0.1] plaintext > cyrus SASL(-1): generic failure: checkpass failed > > so I matched the permissions and ownership of our production cyrus-imapd > and cyrus-sasl system. Now I get this different error. > >
