SOLVED: Y Error: Unable to authenticate with Cyrus admin interface, Error = `'

[suffocator]

Hi list,

I'm glad having found a solution to get kolab working
for Redhat-based systems. It took me nearly three months to
get a running system (Fedora Core1, RHEL3.0 tested so far
with ZFOS-pkgs) beside Debian or Mandrake 10.
I just wonder how ZFOS or Kolab related developers get
things to work for supported platforms without having
a solution for this problem being posted here several
times...

The solution is rather odd, there is no dirty hack
concerning sasl/cyrus/ldap, obviously it's 'only'
/etc/hosts driving mad some scripts (me too).
On a fresh installed RH box /etc/hosts looks like:

[root at sun root]# cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.0.4             sun.matrix.com sun

[root at sun root]# /kolab/etc/rc all start
...

gives us in /var/log/messages:

Jun 25 21:12:17 sun kolabd[9877]: Kolab is starting up
Jun 25 21:12:17 sun perl: No worthy mechs found
Jun 25 21:12:20 sun kolabd[9877]: Y Error: Unable to authenticate with Cyrus admin interface, Error = `'

Modify to:

[root at sun root]# cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1               localhost
192.168.0.4             sun.matrix.com sun

[root at sun root]# /kolab/etc/rc all start
...

and we get:

Jun 25 21:14:56 sun kolabd[8024]: Kolab is starting up
Jun 25 21:14:56 sun perl: No worthy mechs found

After adding users via webinterface - checking mailboxes:

[root at sun ix86-fedora1]# /kolab/bin/cyradm -u manager localhost
IMAP Password:
  localhost> lm
user/morpheus at matrix.com (\HasNoChildren)
user/neo at matrix.com (\HasNoChildren)
user/trinity at matrix.com (\HasNoChildren)

Hopefully changing /etc/hosts does not affect other applications
running on your system. I need some beer now...


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 Magnus                          mailto:suffocator at gmx.de